Serving Quotes - Page 4

• Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

  Nhat Hanh

  People, Abandon, Contemplating

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.98, Beacon Press

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• It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Greatness, Compassion, Greed

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• I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Work, Grateful, Thinking

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• My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Jobs, Dedication, People

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

  Denis Diderot

  Stupid, People, Wicked

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.

  Eliza Acton

  Fashion, Vegetables, Should

  Eliza Acton (1845). “Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families. In a Series of Receipts, which Have Been Strictly Tested, and are Given with the Most Minute Exactness”, p.228

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• I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.

  John Doolittle

  Gratitude, War, Home

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• A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.

  George W. Bush

  Together, Good Marriage

  "President Bush Discusses the Global War on Terror in Tipp City, Ohio". Speech, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 19, 2007.

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• I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.

  Jujubee

  Honey, Trout, Fishes

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• You may have difficulty in obtaining some of these (non-drug) therapies..because the FDA has literally pressured Congress, under the guise of protecting the public, to keep time-honoured cultural and natural therapies out of the hands of the general public. If you look at the record of the FDA, it becomes obvious they are serving interests other than yours and mine.

  Robert Willner

  Fda, Hands, Drug

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• I doubt anything will really come of this lawsuit. First of all, it's a lawsuit. It involves a subpoena. And try to find a Republican who will be willing to be seen serving a black man.

  Bill Maher

  Men, Black, Doubt

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• Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Wall, Doors, Giving

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• ...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in world affairs, and explains to some degree why states like Japan, Britain, France, and Germany - states that are even more dependent on Persian Gulf oil than we are - defer to Washington on major international issues (like Iraq) even when they disagree with us.

  Michael Klare

  Usa, Oil, Iraq

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• As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Determination, Fate

  "Blair addresses divided nation" by Martin Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2003.

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• American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

  Upton Sinclair

  Media, Class, Journalism

  Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.150, Open Road Media

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• Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

  Matthew Simpson

  Education, Successful, States

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

  Jodi Rell

  Faith, Office, Citizens

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• The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Self, Special, Groups

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• Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

  Jane Rule

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Writing

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• You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on where you go - what floor or what cellblock. For me, you go in, and you're just in with a bunch of other people who are in serving their time. You're just in there. It's just boring. You're in detention, essentially.

  Jayson Werth

  Taken, Thinking, Jail

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• When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

  Joanne Woodward

  Christmas, Giving Up, Vivid

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• No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Freedom, Humanity, Independence

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• Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

  Maimonides

  Teaching, Men, Compassion

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• Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation is also of major importance and superior to other nations and peoples. The general level of world information is high but usually biased, influenced by national prejudices, serving to make us citizens of our nation but not of the world.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Believe, World

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