"We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person."

Dedication, Devotion, Life, Meaning, Choice

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"We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person."

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"My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"Our body is the sacrifice that God requires at this hour."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day."

Sergei Bubka, Ukrainian Athlete

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"If you have to do the work, do it well, with all your heart."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"It is the will of God that becomes the passion of the believer."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" one needs to work for self-improvement, to possess decisiveness, to have a will to win and dedication to achieve the goal at all cost."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"On no account must you return back to the world."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Live not only for today, but nurse a vision, live for the future."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."

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"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."

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"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."

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"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates."

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"The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me."

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"She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it."

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"But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"

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"What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration."

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