#serve

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did. ↗

— Eric Holder

#african americans #blacks #country #couple #did

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well. ↗

— Brad Holland

#fiction #intellectuals #led #many #non-fiction

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#country #demands #deserves #devotion #engage

I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#call #countries #debt #entire #euro

My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#beyond #bringing #change #chosen #citizens

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children. ↗

— Jane Howard

#around #avoid #children #doom #fact

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#deserves #ever #falls #him #love

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#dog #fight #occasionally #often #starts

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#capital #civilization #developments #every #here

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

#emotions #every #external #external objects #find