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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
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"The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them."

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David Allen Author
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"It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen."

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Andrew Carnegie Industrialist, Philanthropist
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"If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate."

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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
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"Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness."

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Robert Adams Photographer
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"Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community."

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author
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"Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community's well being. If you're dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives."

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us."

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