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"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."
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"We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions."

"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."

"I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood."

"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."

"We are members of the Church of Christ."

"People should always find support and understanding in you. Then they will support you 100%."
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"One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves."

"We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that."

"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."

"The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems."

"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."

"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."

"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us."

"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
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