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Community Quotes
"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."
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"The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations."
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"In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community."
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"Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map."
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"I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community."
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"I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world."
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"Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community."
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"I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position."
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"I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live."
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"We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools."
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"I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large."
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"In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community."
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"Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against the starvation. We survived because we trusted one another."
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"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him."
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"I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community."
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"I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community."
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"We need the vision of interbeing-we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this is the well-being of "that, so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side; there is no evil side."
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"The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn't discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location."
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"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?"
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"There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity."
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"We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics."
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"Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community."
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"In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story."
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"Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist."
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"We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans."
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"I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages."
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"We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature."
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"We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports."
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"She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest. And me. I was the main ingredient."
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"Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already."
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"It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption."
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"Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers."
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"It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions."
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"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
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"We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends."
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"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."
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"In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play."
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"Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice."
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"If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will."
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"As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level."
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