"In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts."
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"The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous."
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"I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since."
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"Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it."
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"The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth."
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"It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more."
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"When we go to different areas and look at doing period pieces and movies shot in other states and locations, even overseas, it's hard to carry 1700 volunteers from your church with you to do that. And so, we knew that there were going to be growing pains at some point."
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"Find an organization, shoot them an email, call them up, find them on Facebook and say "Hey, I want to volunteer." And that first step could lead to a whole life of engagement. It could be a pretty exciting ride."
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"There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see."
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"As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose."
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"I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself—when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything."
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"It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine."
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"The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in."
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"By the time we got to Courageous, we were bringing in more outsiders, so any time we would bring in outsiders, we would offer to pay them, and [as for volunteers from] the church, because they were getting the benefit of the income to all the ministries of the church and the mission, the building program and all those things, they knew up-front that they were volunteering and gladly did so."
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"With Courageous, it was the first film where we really began to pay our cast. Because the church owned the previous films and we started so small, with such small budgets, people were just volunteering on the cast and crew."
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"When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has."
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"I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it."
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"And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time"
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"A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them."
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"Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor."
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