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Quotes About Local

The north of peacebuilding is best articulated as finding our way toward becoming and being local and global human communities characterized by respect, dignity, fairness, cooperation, and the nonviolent resolution of conflict. To understand this north, to read such a compass, requires that we recognize and develop our moral imagination far more intentionally.
~ John Paul Lederach
The purpose of this pamphlet is to explain how local currencies work. Alone they cannot solve all the multiple financial, social and environmental crises we face, but they are an increasingly important part of the answer.
~ John Rogers
If the NCAA ran local law enforcement, whenever they pulled over a drunk driver, they would impound the car and let the driver hop in another one and drive off.
~ John U. Bacon
Posse Comitatus Act, the federal government is prohibited from deploying the military on U.S. soil as local law enforcement. But what is to stop the local police from becoming the military? Not much, it seems. The
~ John W. Whitehead
The Vikings were normally buried in cemeteries among the local people, which indicates that the relationship was often good.
~ Else Roesdahl
We all live in a local setting. But, each and everyone of us can effortlessly make a global, positive and long-lasting impact and change via the internet. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Whether she was writing to tell her followers about a local cheesemaker, a new farm-to-table restaurant, or what to do with an exotic heirloom fruit that was organically produced and newly marketed, she spent hours each day scouring Philadelphia and the outlying towns for material.
~ Barbara Delinsky
The danger in complacency is that it causes the possessor to ignore as unimportant the local factors and conditions that govern other people with whom it deals.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Television news programs survive on scares. On local newscasts, where producers live by the dictum "if it bleeds, it leads," drug, crime, and disaster stories make up most of the news portion of the broadcasts.
~ Barry Glassner
I think it has to do with quality: How good are the schools we have? Their solution is to spend more money. Mine is to raise standards. Their recourse is to the federal government. Mine is to the local public school board, the private school, the individual citizen—as far away from the federal government as one can possibly go.
~ Barry M. Goldwater
I'm grateful for the support I'm receiving from the people of Hawaii.
~ Mazie Hirono
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
~ Jerry Saltz
I have one room off my kitchen filled with nothing but cookbooks and recipes that are sent to me from around the world. Every two years, I have to go through them and pick out ones to send to the local schools. There's a need for books, especially cookbooks.
~ Johnny Mathis
I turned the Gloucester Christmas lights on and our local Newent lights on, so everyone recognises me now. It is a completely different life for me.
~ Charlotte Dujardin
I feel that the industry takes time to recognise local talent. It usually looks for artistes who are difficult to reach and don't usually approach local artistes who are available.
~ Jagapathi Babu
Marks & Spencer's in Cardiff is a really good place to get recognised.
~ Ruth Jones
People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
~ Olivier Martinez
The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.
~ Lauren Lee Smith
I get recognized at the airport and at the malls in Colorado.
~ Claressa Shields
I go to the local record store to buy my albums.
~ Sonny Sandoval
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
~ Ferdinand Mount
We must continue to recruit progressive prosecutors to run in local elections, support those who do, and hold them accountable if they win.
~ James Forman, Jr.
The number one thing in recruiting in terms of making it a great job is players in your own area.
~ Ben Howland
The job of the government - and my responsibility - is to help people live healthier lives. The framework is about giving local authorities the ability to focus on the most effective ways to improve the public's health and reduce health inequalities, long-term, from cradle to grave.
~ Andrew Lansley