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You learn to write by reading and writing, writing and reading. As a craft it's acquired through the...

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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than ...

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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every he...

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We had been assured by our elders that intelligence was a family trait. All my kin and forebears wer...

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Someone told me recently that a commentator or some sort had said, "The United States is in spiritua...

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In the First Epistle of Peter we are told to honor everyone, and I have never been in a situation wh...

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Marilynne RobinsonWhen I Was a Child I Read Books

To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we...

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The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with paint...

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Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes b...

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The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken...

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In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its be...

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In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one q...

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Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about m...

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Humanity is not an aggregate of individuals, a community of thinkers, each of whom is guaranteed fro...

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You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on i...

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It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I do...

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Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cult...

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Michael PollanCooked: A Natural History of Transformation

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zer...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-somethi...

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I can tell you, Obamacare, I have been stunned by the pratfalls associated with its implementation. ...

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I believe that people of faith by and large have a great interest in the institution of family and t...

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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through ...

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A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it....

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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions,...

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Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who...

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The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in...

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We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is...

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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a...

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We are only human when we are part of a community. ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be d...

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But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves ...

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Orson Scott CardEnder's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

«Linkeree does what he likes. He likes to be alone and think his own thoughts. No one is hurt by it....

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People need each other. Our well-being is tightly tethered to the well-being of people we do not kno...

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Paula PoundstoneThe Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness

Deep-rooted happiness may require a sense of purpose. If I don't feel that I am in some small way co...

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Paula PoundstoneThe Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness

P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life ho...

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P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into di...

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Paulo FreirePedagogy of the Oppressed

The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcome...

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Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is... One of the deepest ...

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I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.

Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of...

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A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peo...

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Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So...

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If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a governm...

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The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more sui...

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

The police are the public and the public are the police the police being only members of the public ...

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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

The fascist authoritarianism, characterized by sado-masochism and destructiveness, had a function wh...

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Everyone belongs to a society, whether he wishes it or not, whether he chooses it or not, whether he...

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Rollo MayThe Meaning of Anxiety

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn thei...

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A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its ...

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Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious f...

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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essen...

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Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbo...

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A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets...

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We were breathing sooty air. The soot was composed of incinerated glass and steel but also, we knew,...

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If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and ...

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The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicia...

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We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning o...

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This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting ea...

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Shane ClaiborneJesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to...

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Shane ClaiborneJesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

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Shane ClaiborneRed Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?

Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and agai...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. The...

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The continuous work of our life,” says Montaigne, “is to build death.” He quotes the Latin poets: Pr...

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Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equalit...

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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and...

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When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak i...

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The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a se...

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As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands ap...

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The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Pr...

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Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who...

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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StendhalFive Short Novels of Stendhal: The Duchess of Palliano

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work t...

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That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that...

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All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If ...

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Susan SontagAt the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and tha...

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When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you ...

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I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop commu...

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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservativ...

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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conserv...

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Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conse...

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The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

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...aconsejaría yo a los que tienen oración, en especial al principio, procuren amistad y trato con o...

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Teresa of ÁvilaThe Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...

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Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighboring yeomen, the listener said, "Ah, Clym Yeob...

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Thomas HardyThe Return of the Native

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecu...

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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest...

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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people aro...

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Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

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Tom WolfeThe Bonfire of the Vanities

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consola...

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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their o...

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If the foreman had no experience in bossing a mob, they had no experience in being one. Members of a...

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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. ...

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