"Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts."
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"He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community."
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"I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community."
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"The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole."
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"I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail."
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"In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide."
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"Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."
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"If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth."
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"I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated."
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"I really hope that the fashion community will not accept anything that does not represent everyone."
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"The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community."
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"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."
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"If we can find peace within ourselves, within our families and communities, and heal Mother Earth in small ways, we can create a measurable shift in our world."
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"I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands."
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"In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical injustice . . . Until this is recognized, discussion of the Middle East crisis cannot even begin."
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"When you learn to live for others, they will live for you."
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"When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually."
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"We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large."
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"No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose."
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"It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification"
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