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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.
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I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write a book which should propagate its ideas? And I could do it most effectively, I thought, in the form of a story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.
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We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
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I had the Secret Service actually patrolling my block at some point. I didn't sign up for that. I went to work to write speeches for Barack Obama!
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We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
- Difference
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Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
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My proposal that Fed governors should signal their commitment to public service by wearing Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts has so far gone unheeded.
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