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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 sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under and a darkness filled with evil spirits - love was an arm round the neck, a cramped embrace in the smoke, wealth a little pile of palm-nuts, old age sores and leprosy, religion a few stones in the centre of the village where the dead chiefs lay, a grove of trees where the rice birds, like yellow and green canaries, built their nests, a man in a mask with raffia skirts dancing at burials. This never varied, only their kindness to strangers, the extent of their poverty and the immediacy of their terrors. Their laughter and their happiness seemed the most courageous things in nature."
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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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"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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"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess."
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"In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were."
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"We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans."
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"Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights."
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"We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools."
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"If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table."
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"If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters."
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"The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community."
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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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"Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community."
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"The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations."
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"We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced."
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"Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase."
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"My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day."
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"When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well."
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"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."
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"When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community."
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"The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor."
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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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"We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends."
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"I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise."
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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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"So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players."
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"In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars."
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"Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own."
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"If your support the community, they will support you."
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"If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will."
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"There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel."
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"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
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"We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos."
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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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"I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position."
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"You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying."
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"Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it."
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"Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice."
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