- Got
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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may not have served myself, but I grew up witnessing service, and it was perhaps my most foundational experience. For a little background, I'm what's called a brat in military circles.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
- Couple Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
- Canterbury
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020