Service Quotes
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I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.
James Forman, Jr.
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Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.
Mark Levin
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Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.
Charles B. Rangel -
You are handed your job as the old king or queen dies... It is not a life sentence, but a life of service.
Margrethe II of Denmark
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Ringing the cash register is not the name of the game. It's only the scorekeeper, and it's not what motivates me. I'm motivated in my business by the compliments I receive about our people, our service, and the quality of our food.
S. Truett Cathy
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John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.
Max Cleland
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If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.
Clive Barker
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It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.
Benjamin Franklin
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My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.
Phil Jackson
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Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.
Clayton Christensen
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I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.
Markus Wolf
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The Keystone Pipeline would create good-paying jobs. Not only where the pipeline is being built, good-paying construction jobs, but manufacturing and service opportunities in Colorado along with the Keystone Pipeline.
Cory Gardner
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AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.
Edward Whitacre, Jr.
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Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.
Peter Marshall
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Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.
Craig Newmark
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Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.
Chiang Kai-shek
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No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.
Donald Wuerl
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Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.
John Sculley
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When talking to first-time entrepreneurs, I often ask them: 'How do you know that people want your product or service?' As you can expect, the answer is often that they don't yet, but will know once they launch. And they're right. That's why it's critical to launch as quickly as possible so you can get that feedback.
Kathryn Minshew
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When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
Pete Best
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.
Buffalo Bill
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Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.
Jonathan Haidt
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Not surprisingly, most people feel most beautiful when they are involved in an act of service, or are doing something that makes them feel generous, connected, or seen by others.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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There are many bespoke services in the U.K., but everything's quite old-fashioned. There wasn't anything young and modern and fresh. We're this young service, where a 25-year-old might come and get some great skirts and her mum could come in for some linens.
Emilia Wickstead