Quotes with devoted

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  • Brendan Gill The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Joseph Conrad The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aristotle This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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