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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." »James Reston
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." »James Reston, New York Times, June 12 1968
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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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"service without selfness, is not service" »Samuel A. Lucero
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"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own." »Johann von Goethe
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"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." »Christopher Morley
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"Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it." »Christopher Morley
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"[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue." »Virginia Woolf
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." »L. P. Hartley
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"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." »L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between
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"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism." »Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
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"'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." »George Washington
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"No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none." »Henry Kissinger
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"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer." »Peter Ustinov
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"Sometimes the world seemed to come with subtitles, like a foreign film. So help her, sometimes people's hidden motives, their lies, their rationalizations, were so pitifully apparent that Sophia felt she could just sit and read them." »Andrew Klaven
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"service is not easy but necessary" »Sindiswa Matyobeni
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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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"I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to." »Will Rogers
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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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"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man." »George Washington
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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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