Community Quotes - Page 31

• We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Choices, May

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• We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common responsibility of us all. It is not fitting that those concerned with the various aspects of the human be alienated from each other. Both you and ourselves represent forces too profound and aim at objectives too significant for either of us to succeed completely without the assistance of the other. The urgency of our work impels us to get on with our common task lest a new period of disaster erupt over the Earth.

  Thomas Berry

  Responsibility, Profound, Quality

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• Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Funny, New York, Thoughtful

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• W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'

  Samuel Gompers

  Party, Secret, Agents

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• Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Civilization, Healthy

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• The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

  Azim Premji

  Character, Canada, Groups

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• The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.

  Charles H. Percy

  Party, Black, Bills

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• Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dream, Baby, Class

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• One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

  John Poindexter

  Speaks Out, Defense, Elements

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• I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

  Lana Parrilla

  Children, Thinking, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.

  Michael Polanyi

  Body, Way, Principles

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• I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

  Pauley Perrette

  Passion, Thinking, Rights

  "Pauley Perrette: from NCIS to the Daily Planet". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. June 8, 2012.

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• To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

  Trevor Phillips

  Country, Agency, Law

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• The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

  Wendell Pierce

  Sports, Team, Indescribable

  "Wendell Pierce Goes to Market". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. February 2012.

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• What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Gone, Individual

  "Wendell Pierce Goes to Market". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2012.

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• But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Agency, Iran, Atomic Energy

  "The case for western missile defence" by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2010.

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• While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

  Burton Richter

  Jobs, Ideas, Important

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• I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

  Charles Rangel

  Have Faith, Glad

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• Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.

  Charles Rangel

  Friendly, Not Friends, Mines

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• Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.

  David Rubenstein

  Thinking, Decision, Administration

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• What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.

  David Rubenstein

  People, Wish, Done

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• Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

  Hilary Rosen

  Artist, Creating, Mp3

  "MP3 revolution splitting music industry along cyber lines". December 16, 1998, www.cnn.com.

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• There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.

  Jeff Raikes

  Thinking, Skills, Creating

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• I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

  Jeremy Renner

  Way, Towns, Small Town

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• Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

  Jim Ramstad

  Directors, Needs, Information

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