Local Community Quotes

• I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so.

  Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

  Rights, Community, Progress

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• Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

  Amity Shlaes

  Community, Hobbies, Clubs

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit fracking.

  Hillary Clinton

  Support, Community, Mind

  Source: www.9news.com

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• Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry.

  Corri Wilson

  Community, Trump, Banned

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities...My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.

  John Naisbitt

  Country, Reading, Cities

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• If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some money! If you have no money but have time, lick stamps!

  Ani DiFranco

  Running, Thinking, Community

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.

  Peter Buffett

  Community, Scales, Dependent

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is a business writer who edits her company's weekly public relations magazine. And in Sister Swing, Suyin writes human interest stories for a free, local community paper, The Asian Time.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Character, Swings

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  War, Differences, Community

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• There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process.

  David Korten

  Community, United States, Needs

  "Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten". Interview with Dean Paton, www.yesmagazine.org. February 20, 2015.

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• For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  College, Community, Leader

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.

  Mick Cornett

  Cities, Community, Leader

  "The Wrath Of Grapes: Oklahoma City MAPS Its Future" by Mick Cornett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Country, War, Years

  "Green Scene: Pop the Right Questions". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 07, 2009.

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• 2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.

  Kevin Rudd

  Years, Australia, Government

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It varies by community. At (one local community) we've never offered them. But at most communities, we offer 2 or 3 percent off base price.

  Roger Lewis

  Communication, Community, Offers

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• To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.

  Amartya Sen

  Eye, Assessment, Justice

  Amartya Sen (2009). “The Idea of Justice”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.

  Rick Larsen

  Home, Commitment, Years

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• Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it being a suggestion. They will turn it into a mandate.In fact, what they will begin to say to local communities is, you will not get federal money unless do you things the way we want you to do it. And they will use Common Core or any other requirements that exists nationally to force it down the throats of our people in our states.

  Marco Rubio

  Agency, People, Community

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.

  Al Gore

  Practice, Community, Friendly

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• And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.

  Jon Porter

  Believe, Rights, Community

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• Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Teaching, Community

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• In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light, and the desperate cycle of oil-based products that continually degrade the environment.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Poor Quality, Light, Oil

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• Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.

  Mark Pryor

  Commitment, Sacrifice, Bravery

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• "Triennale in the City" is a scheme that is of priority for the sponsoring local government. For many local governments, revitalization is an important mission for the local community, and, therefore, the attitude to achieve this mission through the cultural and/or artistic activities should not be denied.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Attitude, Government, Cities

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.

  Carl Levin

  Jobs, Men, Safety

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