Servant Quotes
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The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves.
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Reason is intuition's servant.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.
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Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
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The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person – her husband.
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In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!
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The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
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The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!
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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.
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I am a servant, taking orders and receiving orders. What God tells me, I say, and what He shows me, I see. His will must always supersede.
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True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.
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Amelie said, “I won’t be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals.” She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. “Now defend what is ours, my partner.” He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked.
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There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
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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.
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A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.
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When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.
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Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.
