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Letter "D" » devotion
«For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort»
«I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.»
«I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations»
«It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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President)
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About:
Action,
Ambition,
Courage,
Criticism,
Willpower
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Keywords:
achievement,
actually,
again,
again and again,
arena,
at least,
at the best,
at the worst,
bad blood,
belongs,
best-known,
best,
better,
better known,
be all and end all,
blood,
blooded,
cause,
cause of a,
cold,
colder,
coldest,
colds,
comes,
come short,
could,
counts,
credit,
credited,
crediting,
credits,
critic,
daring,
deed,
deeds,
defeat,
devotion,
devotions,
Do,
doer,
does,
done,
dust,
dusted,
dusting,
Dust to Dust,
effort,
end,
end man,
end on,
end point,
enthusiasm,
enthusiasms,
error,
errs,
face,
face up,
fails,
for short,
Get High,
great,
greatly,
high,
Higher And Higher,
higher up,
highs,
High C,
His,
how,
In a,
in a bad way,
in a higher place,
in cold blood,
In the,
in the end,
is not,
know,
knows,
least,
man,
marred,
neither,
never,
Nor,
now and again,
other places,
our critics,
out,
outs,
place,
pointing out,
points,
point after,
point man,
point the way,
shall,
short,
shortcoming,
shortcomings,
shorts,
short I,
souls,
spends,
strive,
strived,
striven,
strives,
strong,
strong point,
stumbles,
sweat,
sweated,
sweating,
sweats,
Them,
there,
there is,
The Best,
The Best Man,
The Count,
The Critic,
The End,
The Great,
The Man,
The Man Who,
the Triumphs,
the very worst,
This is the Place,
those,
timid,
to a higher place,
triumph,
triumphed,
triumphing,
valiantly,
victory,
where,
while,
whiling,
worst,
Worthies,
worthiest,
worthy
«For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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Keywords:
allows,
ambitions,
ambivalence,
aspirations,
bitterness,
devotion,
embodies,
embody,
embodying,
fraught,
fulfilling,
games,
inevitably,
invest,
Mother The,
not allowed,
project,
raising,
sustained,
The Games
«But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.»
«A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.»
Author: Aristotle
(
Philosopher,
Physician,
Scientist)
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Keywords:
appearance,
apprehensive,
devotion,
fearing,
god-fearing,
illegal,
on the other hand,
pious,
put on,
ruler,
subjects,
treatment,
tyrant,
uncommon
«Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.»
«Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.»
«Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it»