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«The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
average, devote, hat, head off, puts, put in, stands, work off
«The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.»
«This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
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«The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
characterizes, construct, cultural, devote, exemplified, exemplify, exemplifying, femininity, infancy, trained
«To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion»
«This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making yo»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ailment, ailments, clod, complaining, devote, feverish, Force of Nature, grievance, grievances, mighty, recognized, selfish
«The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
| Keywords:
devote
«The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
devote, freedom of the press, human mind, improvement, martyrdom, preserve, press, proceed, the press
