#servant

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. ↗

— Tony Blair

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We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. ↗

— David Brainerd

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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves. ↗

— Jon Heder

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It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

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The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence. ↗

— Meir Kahane

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I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

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