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"Christmas is about community, collaboration, celebration. Done right, Christmas can be an antidote to the Me First mentality that has rebranded capitalism as neo-liberalism. The shopping mall isn't our true home, nor is it a public space, though, as libraries, parks, playgrounds, museums and sports facilities disappear, for many the fake friendliness of the mall is the only public space left, apart from the streets."
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"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."

"When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake."

"I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community."

"I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live."

"As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything."

"Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers."

"What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?"

"There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity."

"We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends."
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"The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all."

"St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry."

"There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that."

"I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings."

"Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue."

"Six books, my mother didn't want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books that I put myself inside them for safe keeping."
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