Served Quotes
768 Served quotes by 665 unique authors
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My dad served 21 years and my mom did 13, so through that process, they taught me that I always have to give back.
— Robert Griffin III
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My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention…
— David Plotz
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There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.
— Eric Hoffer
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To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
— William James
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The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and…
— Richard Harris Barham
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So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
— Paul Ricoeur
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Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but…
— Tom Robbins
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A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no…
— Tom Robbins
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would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.
— Jack Smith
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom…
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that…
— Arthur Levitt Jr
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The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious…
— Anna Sui
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Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we…
— Trofim Lysenko
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My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt…
— Nancy A. Collins
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But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
— Gerald R. Ford
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The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming…
— John Muir
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History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . ..…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago.…
— Gerald R. Ford
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