- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Service Quotes
On service, duty, and the trust it depends on.
Some quotes here treat service as an academic or civic duty - sociology existing to protect individual freedom, classical language once required for public documents - while another simply credits good service for winning loyal customers. Education covers the more institutional side.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I challenge the Government to come clean on the cost of Brexit. The reason they can't look us in the eye, it's because they know this will leave us worse off and with less control. It's a gross abuse of civil service impartiality.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm in the service business. I mean, our sandwiches are pretty good; I don't know if they're extraordinary. But our service is.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanos came to me while I was taking a psychology class in college after coming out of the service; the ol' Thanos/Eros concept.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vietnam affected everything in life while it went on. My time in the service made it clear to me that what we were being told in our newspapers and newscasts, back in the States, wasn't half the story of what was really going on.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020