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No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.
Moses
Heart
Wife
Neighbor
Maid
House
Donkey
Ox
After
Anything
Your
Servant
Set
As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.
Alex Berenson
Resume
William
Webster
Impeccable
Public
Servant
To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.
Amy Klobuchar
Good
Me
Political
Compassion
Will
Sense
Neighbors
Carry
Both
Arena
Political Arena
His
Common
Common Sense
Public
Should
Grounding
Servant
Her
There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Hero
Country
Ruin
Considered
Those
Puppet
Economic
Steered
He
Feel
However
Wall
Wall Street
American
So-Called
Ordinary
Who
Many
Servant
Street
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
Annie Dillard
World
Bears
Self
He
Most
Himself
Contents
Does
Fit
Fits
Certainly
Inherited
Paint
Who
Painter
Paints
Servant
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
Brigham Young
Law
Master
Live
Above
Instead
Perfectly
Make
Want
Servant
I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.
Carlos Mesa
You
Will
Responsibility
Nation
Rule
Able
Without
Same
Who
Bolivia
Whom
Servant
Serve
Number
I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.
Carrie Lam
Politician
Civil
Civil Servant
Over
Been
Years
Servant
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
Cesar Chavez
World
Fault
Wealth
Church
Our
Our World
Since
Poor
Help
Servant
My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Health
Mom
Old
Job
Nurse
High
Ministry
Civil
Civil Servant
Got
Years
Canada
Commission
Moved
Worked
Dad
Servant
Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.
Christopher Love
Art
Will
Men
Glorious
Thou
Righteous
Thou Art
Though
Sons
Thy
Majesty
Most
Condemn
Eternal
Thee
Dost
Holy
Suffered
Servant
In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.
Chuck Todd
Politics
Service
Good
You
Simple
Politician
Intertwined
Embodied
Both
He
Without
How
End
Being
In The End
Public
Plain
Successfully
Public Service
Servant
Kennedy
Ted
Ted Kennedy
A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.
Claudio Hummes
Church
Solidarity
Must
Priority
Poor
Servant
When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.
Colm Toibin
Time
You
Thought
Saw
Signed
Civil
Civil Servant
Inviting
Most
Course
IRA
Up
Campaigns
Exotic
Irish
Middle
Wanted
English
Servant
Bombing
Thing
Ad
Imagine
You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
Doris Lessing
You
Married
Civil
Civil Servant
Red
Servant
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble
Hope
Day
Single
Live
Our
Worst
Wretched
Could
Forced
Single Day
Discomfort
North
Which
Poorest
Keep
Servant
Servants
Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
Felipe VI of Spain
Life
Today
Good
King
Example
State
Our
Moral
Must
Citizens
Good Reason
More
Only
Head
Demand
Over
Also
Principles
Than
Upheld
Just
Legitimate
Public
Ethical
Public Life
Reason
Servant
Ever
I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
Gary Hume
Me
Painting
Mine
Says
Always
Doing
Go
Wants
Informing
Servant
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
Gretchen Rubin
Happiness
Good
Master
Our
Our Lives
Television
Bad
Buck
Quantities
Without
Huge
Up
Bang
Swallow
While
Much
Servant
Lives
Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
Guru Nanak
Joy
Become
Songs
Name
Sing
Lord
His
Servant
Servants
Serve
My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
Hanif Kureishi
Family
Me
Father
Job
Big
Sense
Respectability
Respectable
Civil
Civil Servant
Having
Support
Deal
Big Deal
Being
Mean
Regular
Servant
My mother was really against it when I said I wanted to make films. She said that I should be a civil servant because that was safe, and it had security. But my mother was always very proud of my movies and would give videocassettes of them to all the neighbours.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Mother
Films
Neighbours
Security
Would
Civil
Civil Servant
Give
Had
Safe
She
Make
Because
Said
Always
Proud
Very
Wanted
Against
Movies
Them
Really
Should
Servant
It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.
Irene Rosenfeld
Leadership
Me
Will
Believe
Strongly
Determined
Fact
Attest
Fair
Very
Anyone
Notion
Who
Works
Servant
Competitive
Studying my grandfather's life and legacy has shown me what it takes to be a good public servant. Curiosity. Compassion for others. Humility. Determination to stand tall for your beliefs in the face of opposition. No one believed these things more than my grandfather.
Jack Schlossberg
Life
Good
Me
Determination
Compassion
Face
Humility
Others
More
No-One
Takes
Studying
Tall
Opposition
Legacy
Than
Curiosity
Public
Grandfather
Stand
Your
Shown
Beliefs
Believed
Servant
Things
I can't see the point in being in politics if you're not yourself. If you're simply interested in implementing other people's policies, then you should become a civil servant. If you have ideas and some form of ideology, then it's exciting because you can argue forward.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Politics
You
Yourself
People
Ideology
Become
Other
Civil
See
Some
Civil Servant
Point
Argue
Simply
Exciting
Implementing
Ideas
Policies
Because
Being
Form
Interested
Then
Should
Forward
Servant
I speak very quickly, even for an elected public servant. So if I fast-talk you, I'm not trying to mislead you.
Jesse White
You
Speak
Mislead
Very
Quickly
Trying
Public
Elected
Even
Servant
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