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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. Bush

Great, Power, Help

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
Elsa Maxwell

Weird, Goodness, Dinner

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
David Hume

Reason, Office, Pretend

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Joseph Addison

Country, Die, Once

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Abigail Adams

Service, Ourselves, Mankind

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
Lois Capps

Health, Important, Wrong

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
Bob Ney

Time, Sex, Justice

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
Mary Kay Ash

Work, Treat, Honor

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
John Milton

Hell, Heaven, Reign

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
John Clayton

God, Positive, Him

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
Helen Rowland

Life, Marriage, Down

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.
Alveda King

Money, Children, Poor

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Andrew Carnegie

Men, Strong, Compromise

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.
Jeff Sessions

Women, Men, Care

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
Tom Stoppard

After, Idea, State

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P. G. Wodehouse

God, Knowledge, Alone

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
Thomas Kinkade

Life, Peace, Successful

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
Donald Rumsfeld

American, Public, Paid

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Desiderius Erasmus

Men, Long, Fine

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
Rick Warren

Power, Saying, Jesus

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
Alanis Morissette

Love, Time, Forward

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
Alanis Morissette

Life, Fun, Again

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
Alanis Morissette

Age, Thinking, Young

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Aesop

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson

Good, Business, Design

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Elie Wiesel

Memory, Protect, Kingdom

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
Clarence Darrow

Made, Laws, Clothes

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck

Beautiful, Mind, Heart

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh

Science, Loved, Seen

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.
Marco Rubio

Work, Power, Government

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