Locals Quotes - Page 28

• However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Government, Law, States

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• One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender
  and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Unique, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.69, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

  Carroll Quigley

  Intimate Relationships, Community, Groups

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• I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

  J. Cole

  People, Trying, Paper

  "J. Cole's Tales Out Of School". Interview with David Shapiro, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 4, 2013.

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• Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

  Levon Helm

  Growing Up, Couple, Hero

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• The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

  Zach Braff

  Way, Best Way, Travel Abroad

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• Anything you're interested in the world whether it be Charlie rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop, they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.

  Jack Dorsey

  Coffee, Interesting, Rose

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

  Don Nickles

  Believe, Government, Roles

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• If you say interesting stuff on twitter, people will follow you there. I think Jim Caruso, from MediaFirst, does this well. He’s been at every single technology event I’ve ever attended in Atlanta for the last 10 years. He knows what’s going on. He’s a technology geek at heart... And he’s on twitter, tweeting about local startups, global technology news, and of course, his own clients. I follow him on twitter.

  Ben Chestnut

  Heart, Thinking, Technology

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• Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Morning, School

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.219, Beacon Press

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• In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were 'illegal'. I went with them when they were arrested and remained with them as they were subjected to mind-bending psychological torture. And I accompanied them as they went in tears to the local clinic to have their pregnancies aborted.

  Steven W. Mosher

  Children, Pregnancy, Abortion

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• It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Strong, People

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• The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of Christ's birth, that's the problem. It's unbelievable to me. The ACLU will no longer fight for your right to put up a nativity scene, but they'll fight for the right of the local freak who wants to stumble onto the scene and have sex with one of the sheep.

  Dennis Miller

  Sex, Holiday, Fighting

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• [M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Years, Politics

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• I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Effort, Politics

  "Would Democrats embrace JFK now?" by Jeff Jacoby, www.bostonglobe.com. October 20, 2013.

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• Why is our media quick to find evil in our local police, but tnot in Islamic terror?

  Greg Gutfeld

  Islamic, Media, Evil

  "Gutfeld: Where there's no will, there's no way". www.foxnews.com. January 13, 2015.

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• You may need help or information from some nongovernmental organization, and the local person heading that NGO may be some West Coast, liberal-educated, no-leg-shaving, Birkenstock-wearing female uniform-hater. And you gotta deal with her.

  Dick Couch

  Organization, Legs, May

  Dick Couch (2007). “Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior”, p.300, Three Rivers Press

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• Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, People, Community

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.

  Mike Rowe

  Hero, Blue, House

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• I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.

  Walker Percy

  Uncles, Writing, Wind

  Walker Percy, Lewis A. Lawson, Victor A. Kramer (1993). “More Conversations with Walker Percy”, p.223, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Travel, Typical, Nuisance

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.202, New Directions Publishing

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• The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ocean, Ice Cream, Sea

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• The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.

  Paul Myers

  Heart, Winning, Bridges

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• I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Fun, Office, Posts

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• In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

  W. H. Auden

  Moving, Mean, Men

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