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“It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?”

“It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.”

Needs Community Commitment Locals Local Community

Author:Adam Braun

“I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.”

People America Culture Community Cities New York Reactions Passing Passings New York City Squares Passing Through Merging Hub Times Square

Author:Dhani Jones

“Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.”

Way Trying Littles Different Real Would Be Kids Today Community Principles Watches Streets Danger Changed Summer Police Rip Hippie Living On Suburbs Different Times

Author:Charles de Lint

“A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.”

Firsts Wells Children States Spiritual Community Caring Well Being Organized Primitive Providing Eden

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.”

Men Years Seems Community Wealth Virtue Crime Ten Years Ago Aim Worthy Every Man Combination Revelations Outrage Acquisition Stigma Railway Redeeming Aim Of Life

Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

“Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.”

Law Community Shadow Checks Shells Disarmament

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.”

Community Brother Gentleman Honour Scholar

Author:William Wordsworth

“The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.”

Men Way Should Community Brother Citizens Treats Fellows Treated

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.”

Form Law Humanity Nations Community Brother Equal Destined

Book:Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles

Source: Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles

“I want a military funeral when I diethe bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anythingsomething I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.”

Ifs Way Want War Wanted Dies Community Achieve Military Funeral Flags Approval Firing Squad Unqualified Caskets Hallowed Ground

Book:Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.”

Different Community Atmosphere Goods Consumption Public Service Squalor Opulence

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.”

Term Community Cities Quality Color Lows Educational Income Correlation Inner City Low Income High Notes City Walls

Author:Bill Gates

“The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.”

Feelings Humanity Interest Community Justice Poverty Pride Weakness Direct Riches Tyranny Opposition Expenses Degradation Servitude Wretchedness Splendour

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.”

War Helping Community Results Poverty Intention Experiments Damage Good Intentions Irreparable Great Society War On Poverty

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.”

Thinking Wells Heart Doe Country Whole Community Consciousness Television Tvs Isolated Communion Suggestions Vicinity

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“Small business is the gateway to opportunity for those who want a piece of the American dream... Well, wouldn't it be nice to hear a little more about the forgotten heroes of America - those who create most of our new jobs, like the owners of stores down the street; the faithfuls who support our churches, synagogues, schools, and communities; the brave men and women everywhere who produce our goods, feed a hungry world, and keep our families warm while they invest in the future to build a better America? That's where miracles are made, not in Washington, D.C.”

“So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.”

Should Hands Community Ability Objects Equal Raises Burden Debt Oppression Suits Operations Proportion Expenses Taxation Revenue Adapted

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.”

Humans May Made Self Problem Government Action Social Community Self Love Institutions Operations Organize Legislation Social Action

Author:John Quincy Adams

“In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption .”

Self Hard Strong Nations Community Hard Work Proud Worship Faith In God Consumption Indulgence Self Indulgence No Confidence Malaise Strong Family

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination... Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee.”

People Should Trying Doe Made Government Community Natural White Break Bases Folks Purity Neighborhood Inclination Polish

Author:Jimmy Carter

“For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.”

Made Law Community Views Duty Exercise Highest Victim Conviction Civilized Judicial Subordinates

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.”

Wanted Together America Opportunity President Community Responsibility Greater Stronger Sense Of Responsibility

Author:William J. Clinton

“I pissed off Greeks, particularly in my family, for years to come, because I popularized the word "malaka," which hitherto had not been known outside of the community. It's basically "jack off," you know? Masturbator. So I remember my mother was not pleased at the time. She was, like, "Oh, John, couldn't you have used a better word?" There's no better word, Mom!”

Knows Years Remember Used Mother Community Known Mom My Family Greek Pissed Off

Author:John Kapelos

“I think if we're going to send messages to the stars then it needs a great deal of thought that it's something that should involve the entire not only scientific community, but the entire world community. We need to think very carefully indeed.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Should Stars Community Deals Messages

Author:Paul Davies

“Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row downtown.”

Long America Community Known Los Angeles Homeless Santa Sunny Venice Downtown Monica Santa Monica Skid Row

Author:John Carlos Frey

“I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of the expose. Now the developmentally disabled are cared for in small community-based residences, and I've been working very hard over the decades to open as many of them as I can.”

I Can Hard Community Results Institutions Population Decades Disability Disabled Residence Developmental Small Communities Working Very Hard Developmental Disabilities

Author:Geraldo Rivera

“I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC (The Nature Conservancy) can make is in helping build local capacity - supporting the growth of a global network of small community-based entities. Help people who live within critical ecosystems help themselves and their neighbors to design a better future relationship between themselves and their natural resources.”

“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.”

“See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is a God.Then you can begin to practice Sabbath and that will enable you to re-enter community.You can't have community without Sabbath.”

Soul Community Silence Practice Solitude Sabbath

Author:Dallas Willard

“There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.”

Black Community Positive Things Black Community

Author:William Julius Wilson

“I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.”

Ifs Community Policy Western Critical Criticize Foreign Policy American Foreign Policy Muslim Community

Author:Maajid Nawaz

“The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.”

Community Moral Development Civilization Breadth Moral Development

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“The OGP is something that has brought the world community together.”

World Together Community

Author:Aruna Roy

“The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).”

Community Existence Weapons Mass Destruction Iraq Uniforms Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Intelligence Community

Author:Laurence Silberman

“We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.”

People Want Hard Form Community Vision Grace Hard Work Clubs Surround Clique Shared Vision

Author:Philip Yancey

“Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.”

Source: Road to Science Fiction 2

“I think that there have been a number of situations in which you've seen this administration intervene in a meaningful way, that has substantially furthered American interests and substantially improved the, uh, you know, the - the tranquility of the global community.”

Thinking Knows Way Has Beens Interest Community Numbers Situation Meaningful Administration Tranquility Global Community

Author:Josh Earnest

“Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.”

Knows Important Hard Home Kids Community Differences Emotion Making A Difference

Author:Michael Franti

“Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."”

Firsts Country Asks Interest Community Views Class Rights Produce Duty Protect Taxes Advantage Burden Protection Soil Labour Allowing Imports Plunder Second Place

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.”

Community Capitalism Absolutes Independent Capitalist Tolerate

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.”

Source: The Undiscovered Self

“The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust, and they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”

“The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.”

Reality Jobs President Community Hours Achievement Organization Fundamentals Majority Workers Vices Eight Access Fulfillment Our Society Executives Vice President Sweepers

Author:Peter Drucker

“Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.”

“The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.”

World Facts Community Existence Vision Economy Economic Forgotten Shopping Undone World Economy Shopping Centers

Book:The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society

Source: The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society

“Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.”

States Community Interesting Curious Arkansas

Author:John Gunther

“Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable importance in the maintenance of community health; a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search of evidence of criminal acts.”

Matter Problem Would Be Community Taught Evidence Areas Treats Importance Criminals Requirements Indispensable Blanket Dwelling Systematic Maintenance Dwelling Place Community Health

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well.”

Ifs Knows Wells Facts Age Strong Community Communication Authority Independence Chaos Anarchy Threatening Proximity Contradicting Without Communication

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Don't be a hog: the only time a hog helps the community is when he dies.”

Helping Dies Community Only Time Hog

Author:Evan Esar

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