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“Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport”

“The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.”

Stories Dream Reality School Moving Desire House Community White Bigger Aids Accepted Hiv

Author:Ryan White

“Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.”

Enough Spiritual Desire Choices Energy Fear Community Despair Flow Intention Recognition Generosity Mutual Cynicism Fairness Paranoia

Author:Michael Lerner

“If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.”

Ifs Process Community Democratic Australia Australian Democratic Process

Author:John Howard

“And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.”

Community Liberty Subjects Design Lays Property Foolish Supreme Saving Wicked Legislators Supreme Power

Book:The Second Treatise on Civil Government

Source: The Second Treatise on Civil Government

“I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.”

Should Believe May Community Millions Research Congress Medical Administration Avenues

Author:Tom Allen

“Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.”

Years Enough Shows Lasts Political Voice Community Party Struggle Rights Republican Paper Embrace Civil Rights African American Cents Sixty Legislation Republican Party Seventies Ninety

Author:Michael Steele

“The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security.”

Firsts Names Community Security Months Hero Politician Protect Servant Household September September 11 Our Community Hometown Public Servants Rubble Work Day

Author:Ben Nelson

“A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.”

World Community Honor Overcoming Average Obstacles Godly Vow Exhibits Great Faith Godly Woman

Book:A Woman's Daily Walk with God

Source: A Woman's Daily Walk with God

“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.”

Source: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds: Illustrated with numerous engravings. (2 Thle in 1 vol.). I

“Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.”

World Nations Community Mankind Citizens Loyalty

Author:Thomas Cochrane

“No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.”

Today Community Church Numbers Failing Large Numbers

Author:Felix Adler

“And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.”

Believe Made States Body Bigs I Believe Community Decision Economy Rights Members Locals Local Community

Author:Jon Porter

“In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.”

Has Beens States Facts Community United United States Century Percent Winner Prize Pregnancy Representatives 20th Century Nobel Nobel Prize Jewish Community Nobel Prize Winners

Author:Jon Porter

“Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.”

World Made States Home Community United United States Century Population Immigration Destroyed Genocide Holocaust 20th Century Migration Jewish Community

Author:Jon Porter

“I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.”

Enough America Community Clothes Prepared Teeth Accomplishment Surviving Glowing

Author:Frank McCourt

“Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community. They'll get jobs and start paying taxes too. They will see Australia as a nation with a sense of care and concern. That's so important for a cohesive society. It helps build a sense of belonging. And in terms of common decency, it's what should be happening... For God's sake, this is Australia, people should be treated with decency and humanity.”

“Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.”

“President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.”

World War President Community Islam Iraq Population Islamic Fifth President Bush

Author:John Olver

“It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.”

People Spirit Values Community Powerful Serious Fine Genius Application Leisure Community Spirit

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.”

People Thinking Firsts Lasts Remember Values Community Week Locals First Things First Local Community Trusting People

Author:Patricia Hewitt

“It is essential to view learning as a total community responsibility.”

Community Views Responsibility Essentials

Author:John Abbott

“The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.”

Ifs Seems Faces Community Position Islam Provocation Muslim Community

Author:Sam Harris

“Sometimes it’s just surreal out there, while you’re running a marathon. People just standing out in the cold, even the rain, cheering for you, blasting music for you. It’s an awesome show of camaraderie and community.”

People Sometimes Shows Running Community Cold Rain Standing Cheer Standing Out Marathon Surreal Camaraderie Running Marathon

Author:John Roberts

“Sanctification is a community project.”

Community Projects Sanctification

Author:John Piper

“In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in life, you'll outlive all the other guys who - the bank manager that retired. They gave him a rocking chair and he rocked himself to death. So you gotta have a passion, whatever it happens to be. Whether it's this or something else, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a reason to get out of bed every morning, as my accountant of 50 years keeps on saying.”

Ifs Years Long Matter Reason Happens Guy Passion Goal Community Morning Bed Medical Managers Chairs Every Morning Journal Retired Other Guys Accountants Rocking Chairs

Author:James Wright

“Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.”

Stories Community Honor

Author:Sting

“Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.”

Children Stories Feelings Pain Young Community Space Rooms Ego Connections Outlets Young Children

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.”

Community Audience Player Musician Music Is Links

Author:Trey Anastasio

“I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.”

Community Acting Serious Committed Emma Cambridge

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example...When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.”

Ifs Way May Government Community Childhood Example Disease Stronger Spending Resistance Outcomes Nutrition Vaccines Expenditures Government Spending Vaccinations Immunisation

Author:Michael Moore

“No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that a deep sense and a due acknowledgment of the governing providence of a Supreme Being and the accountableness of men to Him as the searcher of hearts and righteous distributor of rewards and punishments are conducive equally to the happiness and rectitude of individuals and to the well being of communities.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811

“If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?”

Source: Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.”

Way Community Information Variety Formal Committees Chairman Intelligence Community Briefing

Author:Mike Rogers

“One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.”

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I

“When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.”

Individual Community Cities Findings Cease Village Conformity New Yorkers Migrate

Book:Five years

Source: Five years

“A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.”

Community Successful Revolution Substitutes Persist Irrelevant Adequate

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.”

Looks Moments Kids Moving Community Streets Taught Periods Rap Brands Trends Rapper

Author:Tommy Hilfiger

“By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.”

Hard America Community Virtue Tradition Accepted Traditional Traditional Family

Author:James H. Douglas

“I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.”

Thinking Values Community Protect African American Expenses Our Community American Woman African American Women

Author:Anita Hill

“What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.”

Ifs Want Needs Jobs Community Development Locals Mediums Enterprise Labour Initiative Providers Community Development Service Providers

Author:Susan George

“I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.”

Law Community Powerful Promise Reform I Promise Above The Law

Author:Andrew Thomas

“I think the world should be one community.”

Thinking World Should Community

Author:Neil Tennant

“In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.”

People Kind Real Social Community Economy Members Skins Online Website

Author:Will Wright

“Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need, .. The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts.”

World Needs May Community Effort Support Communication Victim Foundation International Communicate Disaster Agency Relief Fund Assistance International Community Time Of Need

Author:Ted Turner

“The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.”

World Whole Individual Nations Community Bounds Prosperity Welfare

Author:Arthur Henderson

“The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.”

People Law Community Talking Security Protect Majors Defense Barriers Patriot National Security Law Enforcement Enforcement National Defense Patriot Act Coordinating

Author:Jon Porter

“We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.”

Real Certain Community Factors Alienation Disconnection

Author:Alan Ball

“Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.”

Giving Wells Government Law Political Individual Community Principles Honor Dignity Responsible Sacred Purity Machinery Respectable Fidelity Hold Fast

Book:The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

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