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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
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm talking about the white working class, here's what I'm defining: high school degree, no more, and working in a blue-collar job or a low-skilled service job. When I'm talking about the white, upper-middle class, I'm talking about people who work in the professions or managerial jobs and have at least a college degree.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Ehrenfeld, we were all jammed together. All the fathers were foreign-born - Welsh, Irish, Polish, Sicilian. We were so jammed together, we picked up each other's accents. And we spoke some broken English. When I got into the service, people used to think I was from a foreign country.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the military or civilian life, we will be asking for a shared sacrifice from all American citizens.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020