If you get completely devoted to something, such as a band, a book series, an animal, anything like that, it'll help you focus on something good instead of how much your life sucks.
"If you're truly devoted to something, you stick with it even when you don't like it.
This implies that part of the financing behind the Affordable Care Act has in effect already been devoted to something else.
Thompson touched on the trade unions and the real wage, of course, but most of his book was devoted to something that he referred to as "experience".
Now think of the amount of media attention devoted to something just a tad more common, say the abuse of old people in so-called homes.
"I like the idea that people lead lives devoted to something bigger than themselves – the landscape, the flocks and their continuation.
Our consumer society is all about need and craving, and politics is so much about complaint and resentment, and here is a day devoted to something else.
Each of the main characters is slavishly devoted to something (baseball, Melville, writing, Westish College, a man), except, of course, the Buddha, who from the beginning is calm and removed, until he isn't, at the end.
"It can feel clubby from the outside," he said, but "this place demonstrated to me how to be intensely devoted to something and take it incredibly seriously, but not take yourself too seriously".
