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• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Freedom, Political Will, Order

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Psychics, Gifts Of The Spirit, Faithful Servants

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• You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Crowns, Want, Thorns

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• Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.

  Tobias Wolff

  Writing, Cost, Mythology

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• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

  Chanakya

  Relationship, Adversity, Wife

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• To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

  Sidney Hook

  Public Opinion, Interest, Opinion

  Sidney Hook (1965). “Political Power and Personal Freedom: Critical Studies in Democracy, Communism, and Civil Rights”

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• ... the People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, and that those who can't tell the difference don't belong in public office.

  Frank Pavone

  Differences, People, Office

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• To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.

  James Hunter

  Talking, Organization, Healthy

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• The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

  Jimmy Evans

  Two, World, Best Marriage

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• I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

  William Shenstone

  Silly, Character, People

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.107

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• I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.

  Horace Walpole

  Men, Wife, Ignorant

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• There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Class, America

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

  Indira Gandhi

  Masters, Bureaucracy, Term

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “India: The Speeches and Reminiscences of Indira Gandhi”

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• Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Teacher, Children, Husband

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• A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.

  George Herbert

  Sleepy, Masters

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

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• God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

  John Milton

  Church, Doe, Firsts

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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• Historically Turkey hasn't had much success in attracting foreign investment. Slowly that is changing. There's a tradition of arbitrary decisions by government ministers and senior civil servants, which would ruin businesses from one day to the next, and which has tended to deter foreign investment. That's changing, and convergence with E.U. practices is a good thing in that it improves governance.

  Andrew Mango

  Senior, Decision, One Day

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• A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

  George Herbert

  Masters, Straws

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.274

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• He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
  [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

  George Herbert

  Knives, Giving, Littles

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• A good king is a public servant.

  Ben Jonson

  Kings, Good Kings, Public Servants

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3197, Delphi Classics

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• The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, Government, Interesting

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.61, Random House

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• I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Slave, Popularity

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.875

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• Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

  Agatha Christie

  Imagination, Masters

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”, p.69, Booklassic

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• The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.599, Simon and Schuster

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• The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

  Juvenal

  Tongue, Worst

  Juvenal, Persius (1848). “The Satires of Juvenal and Persius Literally Translated from the Most Approved Texts by W. Wallace”, p.54

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