Community Quotes - Page 40

• NSEERS was so poorly conceived and badly managed that it created chaos and fear. Trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement was severely strained and, in the end, there was no evidence that any terrorists were apprehended as a result of the effort.

  James Zogby

  Law, Effort, Enforcement

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• We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.

  Jane Bown

  Children, Believe, Reading

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• Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.

  Alain Juppe

  Country, Giving, Noble

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• The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.

  Iqbal Sacranie

  Communication, Play, Roles

  "Blair confronts 'evil ideology'". www.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.

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• If you have a privately owned system, there's going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries. If you have a community owned, municipally owned facility, those extra resources are being reinvested in the community and they can be going to weatherization and other projects that are vested in the community.

  Bill Simmons

  Communication, Leaving, Salary

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• The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but to the community at large.

  Kevin Cook

  Communication, Commitment, Bars

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• It's a community event. Community events create strong communities, and a strong community is a healthy community. A healthy community is a happy community.

  Sandy Smith

  Strong, Communication, Healthy

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• Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. ( But, ) we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.

  Eric Thomas

  Communication, Vegas, Accountability

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• Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.

  Christopher Anderson

  Technology, Effort, Competition

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• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  Otto Schily

  Paris, Members, Metro

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• The parents pull you aside and say, `I have to give credit where credit is due, you really are sacrificing a lot for the community, and giving,' .. But I'm from here and committed to Homestead and the Steel Valley, and it's a no-brainer to me.

  Charlie Batch

  Sacrifice, Giving, Parent

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• Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Artist, Reality

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the way you see life.

  Lister Sinclair

  Art, Together, Way

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• Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

  Bill Gurley

  Past, Years, Majority

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• The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

  Cornelius Lanczos

  Musical, Satisfaction, Mathematics

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• The international community must make pressure on Israel to recognize our right to get freedom, to fight against occupation, to have real peace, legitimacy on our ground. If the international community obliged Israel to do that, then they can come to us and ask us to take our step.

  Khaled Mashal

  Real, Fighting, Israel

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• The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.

  Khaled Mashal

  Responsibility, People, Occupation

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• I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories.

  Khaled Mashal

  Israeli Occupation, Want, Territory

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• Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation.

  Robert Pape

  Suicide, Religious, Organization

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• While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

  Robert Genn

  Moxie, May, Obsession

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• Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Independent, Opportunity, Excellence

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• Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Land, Degrees

  Speech, Osawatomie, Kan., 31 Aug. 1910

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• Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Suffering, Citizenship

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• This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspiring, Country, Religious

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• New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

  Max Planck

  Lonely, Spring, Struggle

  Max Planck's address on the 25th anniversary of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft (January 1936) as quoted in Kristie Macrakis "Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany", 1993.

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