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"The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service."
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"When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened."
"Active listening is one of the best services a company can provide."
"Service, it seems, is the only antidote to existential frustration."
"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."
"When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king."
"Service that is purely self serving, becomes a vice.Do not serve, vice."
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"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
"To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it."
"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual."
"We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective."
"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."
"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."
"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."
"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."
"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."
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