#devote

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. ↗

— James Joyce

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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else. ↗

— Edie Falco

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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? ↗

— Richard J. Daley

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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. ↗

— Henry Ford

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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

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