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The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the...

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Allan BloomThe Closing of the American Mind

I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D....

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We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, com...

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Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in it...

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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never faili...

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the ...

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In our modern religion there is a reticence in speaking of our personal relationship to Jesus which ...

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Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the in...

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I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of...

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Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our difference...

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I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the ...

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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another ...

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Audre LordeThe Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sur...

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I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and sec...

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The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismiss...

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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United N...

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I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - su...

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Our values call upon us to care about people we'll never meet.

That is the one thing that makes me a Democrat, I suppose - this idea that our communal values, our ...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Wha...

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Those of us who have already chosen to embrace a love ethic, know that when we let our light shine, ...

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But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary i...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can insp...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Through the practice of compassion and forgiveness, I was able to sustain my appreciation for her wo...

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I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiar...

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Bell hooksBreaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all t...

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Bell hooksTeaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, sam...

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Bell hooksTeaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democr...

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Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, ...

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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of perso...

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Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a nat...

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Bill BrysonNeither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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And if you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you.

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And wha...

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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness b...

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go...

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But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has bee...

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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community....

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Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most peopl...

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It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this count...

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I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind...

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The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community,...

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Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within....

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D. H. LawrenceStudies in Classic American Literature

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God h...

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Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children...

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The village is coming back, like it or not.

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David BrinTomorrow Happens

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve se...

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If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that r...

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Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an a...

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Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Bap...

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We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was ...

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David GraeberFragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in...

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I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places ...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real thr...

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We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain an...

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You make a difference about your life it's a knock on the head of mind setting your life you see the...

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A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened ...

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I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to ...

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Here all fear of one another, all timidity about praying freely in one's own words in the presence o...

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Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itse...

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Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of anoth...

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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware...

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The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the...

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Is the invisible presence of the Christian fellowship a reality and a help to the individual? Is the...

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The basis of spiritual community is truth, the basis of emotional community is desire.The exclusion ...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as l...

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What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one anot...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Many persons seek community because they are afraid of loneliness...those who take refuge in communi...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, varie...

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The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that lo...

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Dorothy DayThe Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-e...

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Dorothy DayThe Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus

We are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and som...

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Dorothy DayThe Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim direc...

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Dorothy L. SayersWhy Work?: Discovering Real Purpose

My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day lik...

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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a ...

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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race gene...

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Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is ...

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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or di...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our co...

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Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacitie...

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Eknath EaswaranPassage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your c...

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When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds ...

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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to exist...

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Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new...

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