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“We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.”

“I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.”

People Thinking Should Fighting Community Murder International Terror Innocent Inhuman International Community Terror Attacks

Author:Vladimir Putin

“At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.”

Should Believe Community Awareness Ready Constant Inspired Tales Recognizing Criteria Fallibility

Book:Serendipities: Language and Lunacy

Source: Serendipities: Language and Lunacy

“Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.”

Should Community Religious Eternal Elsewhere Eternal Life Religious Community

Author:Matt Salmon

“People should see your faith. If all you do is talk about your faith and people don't see it, but they ought to see it in the way you treat your family, you treat your friends, you treat your community.”

People Ifs Way Should Community Ought Treats Our Family

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.”

Should Children Made Ideas Heaven Enjoy Community Space Duty Honor Clothes Empty Obligation Empty Space Papa Repayment

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate description of how politics actually works that we've ever seen." I mean, West Wing - beautiful, wonderful idea of how democracy should work. But I've had more people in politics say they think House of Cards is closer. I - don't know whether to take that as a compliment or a sad state of affairs.”

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Author:Kevin Spacey

“The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.”

Source: Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life

“Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.”

“I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.”

People Thinking Should I Can Play Able Games Names Community Family Human Nature Basketball Individuality Ideology Living My Life Jersey Teammate Make Me Happy

Author:LeBron James

“You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?”

“A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?”

“We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.”

Should Opportunity Community Chance Behinds Weapons International Spread Nuclear Iran Nuclear Weapons Historic International Community

Author:Barack Obama

“We should put in place a simple, straightforward and accessible way for parents of Dreamers and others with a history of service and contributions to their community to make their case and to be eligible for the same deferred action as their children.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.”

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Author:Philip Smith

“In our community, we have those from the Middle East and those from Asia ... setting up shops and providing goods and services we should be providing for ourselves.”

Should Community Middle East Setting Settings Shops Goods Middle East Providing Asia Our Community Goods And Services

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.”

Should Community Prosperity Prosperous Consonance

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.”

Should Mind Growth Community Supreme Power Of The Mind Purification

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.”

Should Grows Parent Community Church Knowing Grew Calling Grew Up

Author:Margaret D. Nadauld

“You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.”

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Author:Jeremiah Wright

“When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere.”

Should Reality Certain Humanity Community Clear Conflict Solutions Destroyed Recognition Atmosphere Just One Family Conflict

Author:Dalai Lama

“The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love.”

Ifs Should Together Moving Understanding Community Love Is Harmony Daily Life Life Together Away From Love Sangha

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or no debt. That might mean going to a community college or an inexpensive local state school. Whatever it takes.”

Should Mean States Might Kids School Community College Debt Locals Whatever It Takes Inexpensive Community College Best School

Author:Mark Cuban

“I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.”

People Should Believe Government Strong Community Resources Roots Available Believer Grass

Author:Liane Holliday Willey

“If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.”

Ifs World Should Ends Body Spiritual Community Birth Reincarnation Our Community Spiritual Nature

Author:Immanuel Kant

“And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.”

Ifs Should Moving Community Leadership Building Areas Bridges Zero Pope Somewhere Else Nun Mosques Auschwitz Ground Zero Uptown Building Bridges Muslim Community

Author:Peter King

“A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.”

Should Used Community Growing Up Growing London Bars Used To Be Expensive Pillars Pubs Faceless

Author:Jason Flemyng

“At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt.”

“It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished”

Should Community Importance Guilt Innocence Protected

Book:Legal Papers of John Adams

Source: Legal Papers of John Adams

“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.”

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Author:Tom Allen

“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.”

“I think the world should be one community.”

Thinking World Should Community

Author:Neil Tennant

“The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at the expense of all, such as roads, pure water, and sanitary systems for concentrated population, and reasonably comprehensive mail service. The determination between services that should be operated by the government and those which should be left to private enterprise under proper control should be governed by the degree of necessity to the community as a whole.”

“The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.'”

“Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness, for truth and trustworthiness, because they have sympathy with us in our best thoughts and holiest aspirations, because they have community of mind in the things of the soul.”

Should Mind Soul Character Community Principles Higher Goodness Chosen Aspiration Worldly Selection Trustworthiness

Book:Friendship

Source: Friendship

“The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws and obligations of morality are to the conscience. It should be unalterable by any human power.”

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Author:Thomas Paine

“Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as loving human beings. Like Moses responding to the travail of his brothers (Ex. 2:11), a caring halachic Jewish community should respond seriously to the heartfelt appeal of our contemporary sisters.”

“The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.”

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Author:Andrew Carnegie

“We have nothing to hide and it should be clear for the international community whose fault it was that the last closed European border was not open.”

Should Lasts Community Clear Faults International Borders International Community

Author:Serzh Sargsyan

“If you're living in the community and you own your local businesses and you're engaged in the local economy you should have a definite interest in the strength and health of your community, the caring relationships that bind people together.”

People Ifs Should Together Interest Community Economy Should Have Caring Locals Engaged Definite Local Business

Author:David Korten

“It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan. Should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.”

“Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.”

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Author:Ralph Borsodi

“The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965