#serving

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, "Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?" "Well, we have no mechanism to do it," I was told. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#chairman #control #doing #first #i

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#care #serving #life

I would argue that it is not human fecundity that is overcrowding the world so much as the technological multipliers of the power of individual humans. The worst disease of the world now is probably the ideology of technological heroism, according to which more and more people willingly cause large-scale effects that they do not see and that they cannot control. This is the ideology of the professional class of the industrial nations—a class whose allegiance to communities and places has been dissolved by their economic motives and by their educations. These are people who will go anywhere and jeopardize anything in order to assure the success of their careers. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#education

Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion. These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#freedom #hanuman #india #servants #serving

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#collecting #hobby #like #nice #preserving

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#captive #cat #could #dog #eat

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#does #dollar #every #every time #had

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#aspects #being #born #bothered #disturbing

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history. ↗

— James R. Thompson

#history #important #part #preserving #state

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#doing #doing the right thing #father #follower #friend