"Service is the rent we pay for living."

-- Marian Wright Edelman

#Pay Quotes #Serving Others Quotes

“But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.”
“O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
“No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.”
“Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an apparatus attached to his body, the use of which requires personal skill. Artificial flight by a single individual is the proper beginning for all species of artificial flight, as the necessary conditions can most easily be fulfilled when man flies individually.”

Source : "The Romance of Aeronautics". Book by Charles Cyril Turner, Ch. VII Lilienthal and Pilcher, 1912.
“Ideas are the root of creation.”

Source : "The Power of Thought". Published by Prima, p. 119, 1998.
“Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 6 "Bayes Rule", p. 91), 2006.
“Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.”

Source : Song: Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasan, Album: Ray Stevens Box Set
“Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.”

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