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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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"We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock secret service protection for life and other badges of privilege." »Lawton Chiles
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"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!" »Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
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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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"Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this." »Benjamin Haydon
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"All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"service without selfness, is not service" »Samuel A. Lucero
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""We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.”" »Václav Havel
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"People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman." »Erma Bombeck
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"Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself." »Saadi, On the Duties of Society
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"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." »Oprah Winfrey
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"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." »Diane Arbus, (1923-1971)
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"The secret to life is that there is no secret." »"Swampman" on Quartz
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"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." »Thucydides
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"Merrill Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again." »Signs
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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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"The highest of distinctions is service to others." »King George VI
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"The end of all education should surely be service to others." »Cesar E. Chavez
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"Your creative contribution to the world is your service to God." »Oscar Bonga Nomvete
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"Love is a kind of military service." »Latin Proverb
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"service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." »Muhammad Ali
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"I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service." »Ronald Reagan
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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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"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton." »Wilson Mizner
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"The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth." »Mohammed Ali
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"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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