Community Quotes
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Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.
Aristotle
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I think the Port of Palm Beach has an opportunity to thrive, if they can figure out how to do it with community support.
Lois Frankel
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…The L Word reaffirmed that good storytelling has a way of creating community. Fans everywhere have been connecting with each other online, in public and at home-viewing parties.
Jennifer Beals
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Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.
Lewis B. Smedes
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I've always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.
Annaleigh Ashford
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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.
Alan Arkin
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The truth is that the banks that are really hurting under Dodd-Frank, really getting no relief, are the community banks.
John Fleming
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The songwriting community in Nashville really is all about your talent. It's not about your image, and you have to be humble. You have to be kind. You have to have zero ego when you walk into that writing room.
Maren Morris
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I think 'community,' in the sense in which politicians use, it is largely a cant term.
John Lanchester
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Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
Wilma Mankiller
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When we look at the investment decisions into the city of Compton, the small business community and global corporations and retailers and all of those types of services that decide to come into the community to serve it, they look at the perception, how does the brand work with the local community.
Aja Brown
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When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living.
Marianne Williamson
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Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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British policy on Syria has wandered aimlessly, a deadly mix of timidity and confusion. The lack of a coherent response, not just by Britain but by the wider international community, has allowed the situation in Syria to fester into the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime. … We can and should do much more to help.
Jo Cox
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I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you're the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, 'Well, he's only there because of his connections,' or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us.
Frank Deford
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In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.
Donna Shalala
