"A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community."
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"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 that peace with neighboring communities."
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"We don't believe in a small America. We believe in a big America - a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America - that values the service of every patriot."
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"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."
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"We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done."
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"The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community."
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"Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your city but most importantly peace in this world."
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"Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!"
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"How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you."
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"Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up."
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"I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention Ive gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me."
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"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities."
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"The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities."
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"If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body."
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"In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too."
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"The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique."
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"Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change."
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"Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell."
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"The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can."
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"The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher."
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