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• In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, People, Hypocrisy

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.40, Best Books on

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• Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Loyalty, Exercise, Power

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• Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

  Francois Truffaut

  Travel, Hippie, Adventure

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• Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'

  Rudyard Kipling

  Cat, Wish, Caves

  Rudyard Kipling (2001). “Animal Stories”, p.7, House of Stratus

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• Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fate, Agents, Providence

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• Reason is the servant of instinct.

  Clarence Day

  Intuition, Reason, Instinct

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• This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word.

  Richard Sibbes

  Faith, Christian, Blessing

  Richard Sibbes (1775). “Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations ...”, p.32

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• Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Knowledge, Science

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.89, Hackett Publishing

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• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  Adam Clarke

  Heart, Faithful Servants, Honor

  Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.5

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• Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, School, Order

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.95, SIU Press

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• One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise. With your wife, you love your wife; with your children, you love your children; with your servants, you love your servants; with your friends, you love your friends; with the trees, you love the trees; with the ocean, you love the ocean. You are love. Love is not dependent on the object, but is a radiation of your subjectivity - a radiation of your soul. And the vaster the radiation, the greater is your soul.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Children, Ocean

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• Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices, but ultimately we will be accountable for each choice we make. We may deceive others, but there is One we will never deceive. From the Book of Mormon we learn, "The keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name." [2 Nephi 9:41]

  James E. Faust

  Honesty, Book, Israel

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• Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations on a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.

  James F. Cooper

  Government, Balance, Important

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

  Fanny Kemble

  People, Giving, House

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Men, Soul, Body

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.103, e-artnow

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• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

  E. F. Schumacher

  Ambition, Economic, Masters

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Jesus

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• When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

  Confucius

  Son, Chinese, Duty

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• Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.

  Bill Hybels

  People, Goal, Coaching

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• Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Helping Others, People

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• What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, “let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  World, Might, Made

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• Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the most recognizable and widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation. But if you are female while all of those things, men who you defeat in arguments will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They'll patronize you and say they admire your passion, 'sweetie,' but they deal in facts, not your silly, girly feelings. It's inescapable. You can set your watch by it.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Girly, Silly, Passion

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• Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

  Jef Raskin

  Computer, Classroom, Supposed To Be

  "The Macintosh at 20: Interview with Jef Raskin". Interview with Berkeley Groks, grokscience.wordpress.com. March 3, 2004.

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