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“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.”

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one knowing much of anything that does not does not go on in his own immediate neighborhood; but in a night engagement ( and this was the only one that occurred between great armies during the war) how could anyone know anything for certain?”

Knows Mean Doe War Night Certain Knowing Goes On Army Notion Neighborhood Engagement Great Army

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going to continue to be "Fortress Israel"? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.”

“In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.”

“It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".”

Knows Trying Voice Struggle Clear Position Grew Needed Grew Up Police Neighborhood Helpful Rough Police Brutality Brutality Philadelphia

Author:Will Smith

“You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.”

Needs Helping Decision Struggle Empathy Neighbor Neighborhood Personal Life Empathetic Bad Decision

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.”

Knows Joy Education Neighborhood Joy Of Learning

Book:The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

Source: The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

“My divorce has changed my life. I don’t cry anymore. My bad dreams are starting to go away. I feel stronger, as if all these ordeals have toughened me. When I go out in the street, sometimes women in the neighborhood call to me, congratulating me and shouting ‘Mabrouk!’ – a word once tainted by evil memories, but which I know like to hear again. And shouted by women I don’t even know! I blush, but deep down I’m so proud.”

Source: I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

“My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.”

Littles Stills Two School Parent Fit Clothes Tough Catholic African American Neighborhood Lots Of Money Catholic School

Author:Ryan Coogler

“I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the ways of life are established in small, consenting groups. These groups could cooperate with other groups as they saw fit. But all cooperation would be on a voluntary basis. As the French anarchist Proudhon said. “Liberty [is] not the daughter but the Mother of Order.”

World Way Said Would Be Mother Order Social Liberty Saws Groups Fit Daughter Organization Bases Favors Opposition Neighborhood Cooperation Anarchist Social Organization

Author:Karl Hess

“To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.”

People Neighborhood

Author:Karl Hess

“The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can overcome almost every tangible obstacle of communication, he can travel, buy books and periodicals, and bring within the range of his attention almost any known fact of the world.”

Men World Book Facts Attention Known Effects Communication Overcoming Size Obstacles Access Income Range Neighborhood Tangible

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.”

“Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.”

Years Kids Lasts Three Pieces Billions Neighborhood Executives Last Year Halloween Candy Imaginative Goldman Sachs

Author:Jay Leno

“Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf.”

People Needs Book Waiting Cities Solutions Deserve Locals Neighborhood Need A Change Bookshelves Tactical

Author:Alex Steffen

“Why was Joseph Smith persecuted? Why was he hunted from neighborhood to neighborhood, from city to city, and from State to State, and at last suffered death? Because he received revelations from the Father, from the Son, and was ministered to by holy angels, and published to the world the direct will of the Lord concerning his children on the earth.”

World Children States Earth Lasts Father Cities Lord Son Holy Angel Direct Revelations Neighborhood Persecuted Hunted Joseph Smith

Author:Brigham Young

“We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.”

Wind Moon Spread Bones Flesh Neighborhood Machinery Whispering Residents Flexing

Author:Jack Gilbert

“Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.”

Mind States Lines Talking New York Rivers Hollywood Folks Flight Beach Holiday Hops Neighborhood Get Away State Of Mind Miami Greyhounds New York State Miami Beach Hudson River

Author:Billy Joel

“You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.”

Feels Humans Sometimes Hard Mistake Share Reputation Hard Times Neighborhood Alright Having A Hard Time Bad Reputation

Author:Billy Joel

“When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.”

Firsts Littles Kids Pet Neighborhood Little Kid Alligators

Author:Benicio Del Toro

“Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in different neighborhoods. "This person here was prosecuted." "This person was sent to this concentration camp." "A family of Jews lived here. They took over his business." Little, very discrete, very dignified plaques are everywhere.”

Littles Persons Different Jew Discussion Neighborhood Concentration Camps Holocaust Concentration Camp Discrete

Author:Bob Balaban

“The stakes are geopolitical in nature and I believe that democracies are - people want to live in free societies, democracies are the best way to do that, and that if people see democracies in the neighborhood, they'll demand the same thing.”

People Ifs Way Want Believe I Believe Democracy Demand Best Way Neighborhood Stakes Free Society Geopolitical

Author:George W. Bush

“I want to help communities put welfare recipients to work right now, without delay, repairing schools, making their neighborhoods clean and safe, making them shine again. There's lots of work to be done out there. Our cities can find ways to put people to work and bring dignity and strength back to these families.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.”

Rich Grew Grew Up Hollywood Neighborhood

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.”

Attention News Survival Discovery Species Insanity Cosmos Neighborhood Deserving Headlines Hood Solar System

Author:Vanna Bonta

“New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them existing on different continents, some of them existing in different centuries, and many of them at war with one another. English is not the primary language in many of these villages, but the Roman alphabet does still have a slight edge.”

Way Doe Stills Different War Language Cities Century New York Edges Primaries Neighborhood Village Continents Alphabet

Book:What's So Funny?

Source: What's So Funny?

“It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.”

People Important Community Cities Tradition Roots Critical African American Neighborhood New Orleans American Music

Author:Bill Taylor

“Bedford definitely stands out as a community that's designed to appease to a broader range of budgets and lifestyles. The opportunity for a diverse neighborhood that encourages community activity and social interaction is what we feel makes Bedford a model community in this industry.”

Feels Opportunity Social Community Communication Industry Activity Models Lifestyle Range Budgets Neighborhood Interaction Diverse Standing Out Social Interaction Appease

Author:John Myers

“There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.”

People Ifs Thinking Might Moving Law Death Dies Turns House Wall Months Smell Fifty Neighborhood Host Clinging Supper Unwritten Potluck

Book:Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

Source: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.”

Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays

“Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine. Some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished. My parents said, "That's very nice" and ignored it, but I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing.”

Said Parent Boys Saws Nice Objects Silent Eight Nine Life Changing Neighborhood Ignored 1960s Very Nice Discs

Author:Steven M. Greer

“It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number of neighbors who do not speak Norwegian, who do not follow the Norwegian customs, norms and way of life, could have psychosomatic disorders that can lead to both sickness leave and need for medical help.”

People Way Needs Facts Helping Speak Results Numbers Neighbor Medical Sickness Neighborhood Customs Disorder Isolated Norm Large Numbers Norwegians Medical Help

Author:Carl I. Hagen

“Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.”

“Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.”

Ifs Knows Feels Littles Persons Facts Happens Night Black Walks Our Lives Streets Honest Conclusion Being Honest Neighborhood Black Person

Author:Assata Shakur

“Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.”

Way Children Doe School Purpose Opportunity Parent Education Offers Limits Setting Settings Alternatives Just One Thrive Neighborhood Charter Tuition Way Forward Charter Schools

Author:Rick Perry

“I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.”

Wanted Opportunity Lost Stupid My Family Accidents Neighborhood

Author:Olivier Martinez

“Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.”

Long Success Certain Careers Rich Buddhism Highest Long Time Expensive Neighborhood Domain Long Time Ago

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.”

Used Baseball Bars Neighborhood Imitating Oklahoma Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Billy Crystal

“The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him a little kitten to play with. A couple of weeks later we found it on the porch with its neck wrung.”

Children Littles Play Courses Found Parent Boys Week Atheism Couple Positive Atheism Necks Neighborhood Forbidden Little Boys Kitten Porch

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.”

People Needs Funny Jobs Black Responsibility Safe Folks Like Me Neighborhood Educate Taking Responsibility Don't Like Me

Author:Charles Evers

“Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship.”

People Ifs Home Jobs Capable Training Dollars Prison Billions Employment Entrepreneurship Neighborhood Rehabilitation Job Training

Author:Van Jones

“I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands of dollars worth of comics to the neighborhood kids.”

Wells Said Kids School Mother Courses High School Okay Dollars Teenager Neighborhood

Author:Trina Robbins

“If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.”

Ifs Mind Real Bigs Remember Dangerous Neighborhood Big Things Small Things

Author:Mike Tyson

“The people who are working, paying their taxes are put into the system so that affordable housing could be built in neighborhoods that they probably live in that. That they may not want to, they may pay a premium so that they could live where they want to live and you end up with just another massive redistribution of wealth.”

People Want May Ends Wealth Pay Taxes Built Neighborhood Massive Housing Affordable Premium Redistribution Of Wealth Affordable Housing

Author:Eric Bolling

“When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens.”

Should Citizens Neighborhood Immigrants

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“The way that you empower the poor to be able to live in those neighborhoods is not to just move them and give them something, give them the better neighborhood. You have policies that allow them to get out of the neighborhood permanently and afford that neighborhood through hard work.”

Way Giving Hard Able Moving Poor Policy Hard Work Empowering Neighborhood

Author:Katie Pavlich

“Instead of building housing in a wealthy neighborhood and saying, here you go, here's some under the market which will, by the way, drop the market for everyone's housing. Go into the lower income neighborhoods and say, here's a business incentives, so that people can get jobs.”

People Way Jobs Building Income Neighborhood Wealthy Incentives Housing

Author:Eric Bolling

“Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.”

Guy Hate Car Ems Neighborhood Hanging Out Flash New Car Old Neighborhood

Author:Ja Rule

“My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.”

Jobs Opportunity Projects Congress Employment Neighborhood Components Residents Developers Employment Opportunities

Author:Hakeem Jeffries

“The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.”

Years Matter Shows Seems Can Do Childhood Data Extras Neighborhood Can Do Something Mobility Upward Mobility

Author:Raj Chetty

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