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"The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong." »Elizabeth II
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"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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"An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service." »E.B. White
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"We are twice armed if we fight with faith." »Plato
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"The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Every one who is able may have a gun." »Patrick Henry
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"service without selfness, is not service" »Samuel A. Lucero
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"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts." »Eugene H. Spafford
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"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision." »Henry Kissinger
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"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" »Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment." »Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline"
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"Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people." »Aristotle
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"How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be" »Vincent Van Gogh
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"service is not easy but necessary" »Sindiswa Matyobeni
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"Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on." »Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament
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"The end of all education should surely be service to others." »Cesar E. Chavez
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"The highest of distinctions is service to others." »King George VI
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"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other." »John Adams
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"Love is a kind of military service." »Latin Proverb
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"As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Your creative contribution to the world is your service to God." »Oscar Bonga Nomvete
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"service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." »Muhammad Ali
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"Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man." »George Washington
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"I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service." »Ronald Reagan
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"You shall go with me, newly-married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song." »William Butler Yeats
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"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton." »Wilson Mizner
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