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However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service."

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.