Quotes About Community

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.

The question we face today is: What are we going to do when the coal is gone? And make no mistake it's going. No one has given us an answer that doesn't require the sacrifice of our health and our environment.

I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.

The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities.

In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.

Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.

A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.

A robust democracy requires active participation.

A great economy requires great public schools.

People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.

During my time at Essex county fire and rescue service, barely a shift went by without receiving a call from an elderly person who had fallen in their home, or from their concerned neighbour or carer.

Haitians must understand that they have to collaborate to resolve the country's problems - no one is coming to rescue them.

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

I love the idea of sharing some of what we find in the research phase with a select community of people early on as a perk for their donating, and then gauging their feedback.

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.