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		Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Van Jones
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Cross is not the terrible end of a pious happy life. Instead, it stands at the beginning of community with Jesus Christ. Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dietrich Bonhoeffer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Li Peng
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Hickenlooper
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Moon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone through that I don't wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lemon Andersen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and it was very critically hailed by my school paper!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lindsay Mendez
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The thought of losing Ted Stevens, a man who was known to business and community leaders, Native chiefs and everyday Alaskans as Uncle Ted, is too difficult to fathom. He truly was the greatest of the Greatest Generation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lisa Murkowski
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elijah Parish Lovejoy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William L. Jenkins
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carl Hart
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Max von Essen