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Letter "S" » Social service
«In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Social service
| Keywords:
dares
«I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Social service
| Keywords:
acted, awoke, behold, dreamt, saw, slept
«Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Life,
Social service
| Keywords:
happier, harder, richer
«If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| About:
Generations,
Social service
| Keywords:
generation, help, lifetime, next, the next, The Next Generation
«Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Generosity,
Happiness,
Joy,
Life,
Social service
| Keywords:
definite, look upon, only if
«Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Life,
Social service
| Keywords:
question, urgent
«I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Equality,
Politics,
Race,
Social service
| Keywords:
Black race, bringing, equality, favor, juror, jurors, Negroes, office, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, races, The Social, The White, voters
«Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Men,
Richness,
Social service,
Solidarity
| Keywords:
rewards, service
«Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Family,
Mankind,
Social service
| Keywords:
bring up, rendered, social service
«I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Social service,
Solidarity
| Keywords:
human race, race, rendered, service
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