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  • For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service. -- Ron Wyden
  • We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. -- Bernard de Mandeville
  • UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists. -- Carol Bellamy
  • The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works. -- Jeff Bezos
  • There is no greater call to service than that of our brave men and women who serve our country in combat across the globe. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
  • I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do. -- Richard Blumenthal
  • It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?' -- Charles Nelson Reilly
  • Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances. -- John Battelle
  • So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored. -- Paul Begala
  • Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. -- Frank Gehry
  • It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting. -- Michael Ignatieff
  • During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!' -- Max von Sydow
  • To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share. -- Steven Rattner
  • Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service. -- John Sununu
  • No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side. -- Bob Riley
  • There is a huge market for products and services aimed at what I like to call the Pocketbook Environmentalist: a shopper who's savvy enough to know things don't necessarily have to cost more just because they're good for the environment. -- Lynn Jurich
  • One of the big things coming out of healthcare reform is a thing called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) which is a mechanism to reimburse people staying at home for technology and services that allow them to stay at home. -- Colin Angle
  • The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.' -- Douglas Rushkoff
  • Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box. -- Wil Shriner
  • In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
  • I'm staying in a strange hotel. I called room service for a sandwich and they sent up two hookers. -- Bill Maher
  • I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called "¦ YouTwit-face. -- Mark Frost
  • When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices. -- Todd Park
  • It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State -- Winston Churchill
  • Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable. -- Pope Francis
  • He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries. -- Dave Eggers
  • The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence. -- Antony Jay
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