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Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and ...

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We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their liv...

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At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we ha...

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You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world ...

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I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is si...

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The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is P...

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If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the sam...

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All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments ...

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It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good servic...

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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions,...

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One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can gr...

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Nicholas D. KristofHalf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers an...

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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Ma...

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Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing ...

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It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thin...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one ...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such servic...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of...

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We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would mak...

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Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...

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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...

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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, ser...

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Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only beca...

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Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best ser...

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God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerou...

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Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our ...

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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indis...

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The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just dra...

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First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serv...

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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civi...

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and pr...

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You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. L...

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Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American w...

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One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has educatio...

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Being a good example is the best form of service.

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the ...

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I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 200...

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Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive o...

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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only tho...

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Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experie...

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The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise me...

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We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we sh...

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Balanced service is a virtue to be cherished. There is to be time in our life to serve God, to serve...

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No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fell...

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As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recom...

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Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather,...

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Thomas S. MonsonPathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are i...

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Thomas S. MonsonPathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat, i...

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We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

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Théodore GuérinJournals and Letters of Mother Theodore Guerin

There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler ou...

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Vincent van GoghThe Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, ...

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Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule...

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This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to ever...

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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land un...

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I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will b...

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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom...

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"You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself."

By studying Bhagavad-gītā, one can become a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord and enga...

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The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of t...

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Adolphe QueteletTreatise on Man & the Development of His Faculties

Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes whe...

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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in...

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be re...

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The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.

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Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers

The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to ...

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The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His Name with the Father in conjunction with ...

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A day will come when other Israelis will be launched into space in the service of science and progre...

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Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improve...

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less an...

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When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid...

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During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that lo...

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Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a gove...

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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience ...

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Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost; a w...

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We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget...

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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happe...

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I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they ov...

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There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually e...

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There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having t...

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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving...

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The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

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As Christians we have a responsibility toward the poor, the oppressed, the downtrodden, and the many...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give the...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The Bible teaches that we have a Christian duty to help our neighbors in their time of need. We are ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment t...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Be honest about your weaknesses and ask God to help you overcome them so you can serve Christ more e...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God wants to use you right where you are. Every day you probably come in contact with people who wil...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Thinking of and serving with others can be an antidote to negative and unhealthy introspection.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The strain of Christian service can result in sickness . . . I have known Christian workers who have...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Jesus, by example, tells us that every true leader should be a helper, a servant, or even a bondslav...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

One of Satan’s most effective ways of blocking God’s work is to convince us God can’t use us to make...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes