"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."
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"I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!"
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"When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately."
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"Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind."
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"We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone."
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"The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration."
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"Relation is the essence of everything that exists."
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"Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. But it is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy. When you always do your best, you take action."
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"Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time."
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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."
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"The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities."
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"I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness."
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"First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat."
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"Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose."
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"Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program."
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"So how do Latinos feel if there's a big investment just in the African American community, and they're looking around and saying, "We're poor as well. What kind of help are we getting?" Or Asian Americans who say, "Look, I'm a first-generation immigrant, and clearly I didn't have anything to do with what was taking place.""
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"Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it's not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument."
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"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."
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"A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world."
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"In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the quality of the life that we foster for all members of the community and the compassion we show for the disadvantaged."
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