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In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans. -- Solomon Ortiz
Volunteers are caring friends -- Don Williams
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless. -- Sherry Anderson
The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers. -- Paul Kantner
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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. -- Abraham Lincoln
A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful. -- Ben Salmon
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another. -- Erma Bombeck
Volunteers are the backbone, heart, and soul of the restoration movement. And whatever the eventual results of their labors may be, working to revive damaged ecosystems is transforming and strengthening their relationship with the rest of nature. -- William K. Stevens
There's nothing like volunteers who believe in a candidate and a cause. -- Steve Stockman
You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers. -- Benjamin Walker
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers. -- Whoopi Goldberg
When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all. -- Shawn Amos
Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet. -- Eric S. Raymond
Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems. -- Gerry Adams
That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism. -- Ernst Zundel
It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads. -- Jon Porter
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? -- Thomas Jefferson
It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew. -- Paul Watson
There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6. -- Larry Wall
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. -- John Updike
Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer. -- Jon Porter
We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That's what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things. -- Richard M. Daley
In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman. -- Christine Pelosi
I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world. -- Kenny Marchant
I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad. -- Kenny Marchant
Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse. -- Jonathan Sacks
We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe. -- Kenny Marchant
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! -- Kerry Washington
Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home. -- Shari Arison
We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.' -- Adam Hamilton
At a time when we aim to accelerate our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a bold agenda for the period beyond 2015, the role of charity can and should grow. U.N. bodies such as the U.N. Volunteers Programme and UNICEF offer venues for people across the world to get involved. -- Ban Ki-moon
I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so. -- Paul Watson
I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
There are no victims, only volunteers. -- Robert Anthony
Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul. -- Rosalynn Carter
I live to inspire girls, volunteers, Girl Scout staff and alumni -- Anna Maria Chavez
Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts. -- Andy Stanley
We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet." -- Andy Stanley
The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers. -- Barbara Bush
We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers. -- Cecile Richards
If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers. -- Andy Stanley
Here's to all volunteers, those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay. -- Robert Orben
The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it. -- Antony Worrall Thompson
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We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear. -- Norman Borlaug
The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death. -- Harold J. Seymour
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers. -- Whoopi Goldberg
Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers. -- Susan J. Ellis
Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor. -- Mother Teresa
However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance. -- Tim Murphy
Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level. -- Rick Strassman
What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver. -- Edward James Olmos
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers. -- Ronald Reagan
It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. -- William James
True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead. -- Neal A. Maxwell
The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time. -- Temple Grandin
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers. -- Kofi Annan
If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever. -- Kofi Annan
I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job. -- Ivan Konev
It slowly dawned on the volunteers that they were not patients but subjects; separated from their friends and community in Kalaupapa, they felt like outcasts among outcasts. -- Alan Brennert
People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together. -- Rick Warren
If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers. -- Al Roker
The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life. -- Bill Alexander
Actually, we did a fun April Fools' thing with Google a couple of years ago, which we called Virgle. And we looked for volunteers to go on a one-way trip to Mars. -- Richard Branson
Dark clouds outside are no match to the bright smiles of volunteers at the GK relief center. Hope shines brightest in darkness. Miracles of solidarity can help a nation walk on water. -- Tony Meloto
Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone doubt, after reading our accounts... that DMT elicits 'typical' alien encounters? -- Rick Strassman
When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions. -- Erwin McManus
We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'. -- Julia Gillard

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