Quotes About Community

I always say that "half of who you are is other people," meaning that the beliefs, attitudes, and biases of the people around you gradually become your own.

Straight people get married so that they can have sex. Gay men have sex so that they can get friends.

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won't admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars that everyone wanted and not old enough to be – and didn't want to be – the funny old queen whose jokes everyone laughed at. Instead, he was just middle aged and alone.

I guess I've learned that no matter how bad things get, there are always people who love you.

This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected." These words spoken

Altruism is not an improbable achievement against the individualizing forces of natural selection; rather, it is an integral part of the social lives of all beings that live with others interdependently—up to a (mathematical) point. Everyone helps and gets helped, up to a point, because everyone is important to someone in some way, up to a point.

Human culture is early human cooperation writ large.

Since one's moral identity is socially constructed, one must always be prepared to justify -both to others and oneself- why one chose one course of action over another. Justification means showing that my actions actually emanated from values that we all share.

Word learning is thus not about putting labels on things but rather is about acquiring conventional means for coming to share attention with others in a variety of complex social contexts.

Finding a satisfactory balance between cooperation and competition is the basic challenge of a complex social life.

Ortak seçimi demek, bir bireyi, muhtemelen en yetkin (örne?in bilgili ve hünerli) ve i?birli?ine en yatk?n (örne?in üzerine dü?en i?i yapmaya ve pay?na dü?en kadar?n? almaya e?ilimli) olan? i?birli?i orta?? olarak tercih etmek demektir. Zorunlu i?birli?ine dayal? avc?l?k-toplay?c?l?k ba?lam?nda hiç kimse taraf?ndan seçilmemek elbette ki?inin ölümüne yol açacakt?r.

?kinci ?ah?s sorumluluk ve ikinci ?ah?s suçluluk, insan türünün ilk toplumsal aç?dan normatif tutumlar?yd? ve muhtemelen güceniklik içeren ikinci ?ah?s itiraz sürecinin bir tür içselle?tirilmesinden türedi. Ortak ba?l?l?k vas?tas?yla olu?turdu?u "biz"in temsilcisi olarak birey, ba?kalar?na hak ettikleri gibi davranmad??? için kendine itiraz etti.

We can make ourselves more resilient by making the world around us supportive.

It was the best juke in Austin, had everything, old and new, black, white and brown, urban and country — It's the Great American Novel of Jukeboxes.

When you notice people dealing with the concrete realities of their lives through the practices of prayer and holy reading, it is a clue you have entered a culture of discipleship.

Powerful Leaders pursue a destiny rooted in relationships (Is that you?) not performance (Is that it?); what's in your destiny?

which would be the most serious littering offense ever, way worse than sneaking away after your dog drops a deuce on someone's lawn)

we became truly modern only in 1999, with the launch of LiveJournal.

The story of the Donner Party is a long and complex account of how a group of people from varied backgrounds, stratified in age, wealth, education, and ethnicity, followed their different dreams. Out of necessity, they were made to unite and battle against the unknown—weather, nature, and finally life and death

Joining the corporate worship of the body of Christ requires that we allow something else—the good of the body—to supercede our personal preferences.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

With his misspellings and his use of 1970s lingo—"wire tapping" called up an image of FBI agents crouched in a van on Fifth Avenue—it seemed kooky and farcical. Of the many tweets that Trump had seemed to hoist himself by, from the point of view of the media, intelligence community, and extremely satisfied Democrats, the wiretap tweets had pulled him highest and most left him dangling in ignorance and embarrassment

New York, the world's largest Jewish city.