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"This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives."
"Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community."
"I love being a part of the country-music community."
"There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect."
"A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish."
"What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move."
"The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances."
"The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off."
"It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing."
"Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it."
"Men become friends by a community of pleasures."
"There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem."
"I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community."
"The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment."
"Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks."
"The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, "You change the school, you change the community." I couldn't wrap my mind around that."
"The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine."
"We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us."
"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."
"Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another [Eph 4:25]. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints."
