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Community Quotes
"I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific."
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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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"It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots."
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"I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field."
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"However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems."
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"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
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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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"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 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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"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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"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."
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"For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with their fingers, squinting at street signs or staring at a slip of paper with confusion are typical recipients of our generosity. We know our city can be as challenging as it is fascinating, and we want visitors to have a good experience."
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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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"I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position."
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"If we take care of our neighbors, our neighbors will take care of us. If we take care of our friends, our friends will take care of us. If we take care of our family, our family will take care of us. If we take care of others, our God will take care of us."
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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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"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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"Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights."
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"Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice."
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"If your support the community, they will support you."
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"There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized."
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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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"Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce."
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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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"Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own."
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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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"Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it."
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"We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans."
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