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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%.

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  • James Allen Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Ann Bancroft I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bill Frist September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Seneca Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Vaclav Havel The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Andrew Carnegie 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%.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • James Joyce The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Andrea Dworkin 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.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Boris Yeltsin While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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