Quotes About Community

Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge

Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

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no one is ever the last person anywhere, there is always someone who crosses later on.

Esse "nós" infunde coragem, proporciona resistência, faz companhia imaginária e dissolve escrúpulos, ou pelo menos divide as responsabilidades.

You are the only one who can avoid the collapse of the party. And if the party breaks up, it is very likely that the whole country will fall to pieces. What has kept India united since independence? Our party. Who guarantees the values that enable all the different communities to live together in peace? The

Solo hay dos formas de estar solo. Sin nadie cerca o en medio de una multitud

Being around others who practice situational awareness at your level or above will always keep you safe.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world. —William Barclay

One of these norms says that Christians must not talk negatively to other people about those who are not in the group. Instead, they are instructed to speak privately about their differences to these individuals themselves. Matthew 18:15-17 is quite clear on the point.33

While patriotism often gets triggered by something negative—you get patriotic when your group is under threat—emulation works the opposite way. We find it hard to see emulation as an emotion; the ancients were much bigger on imitation than we were.

The plan was to create a agrarian buffer between the rapidly enveloping towers of New York and Brooklyn.

If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough.

There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.

a pockmarked boy with a scraggy ponytail and four tiny rings in his right ear leaned against the wall of the armory, holding his dog on a leash, a sign hanging from his neck: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PET MY DOG. IT MAY MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER.

Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

So I'm living this life. Maybe, someday, I'll be able to choose another. For now, I can't. What keeps me sane - so to speak - is that I can listen. And you should too. You might think you can ignore people like me. But there are a lot of us. It's in your interest to hear what we're saying.

This is my commandment," Jesus said, putting before us a single ideal, "That you love one another, as I have loved you" (John 15:12). The simplicity and force of this statement take away the breath.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Alexis de Tocqueville.

Once, while traveling in the eastern edge of the district, he arrived at a small town late in the afternoon, jumped from the car, headed straight to the hotel, and invited everyone in the bar to have a drink—on him. Only after the bartender began pouring did Roosevelt think to ask where he was: Sharon, Connecticut, not only the wrong district but the wrong state. Undaunted, Roosevelt grinned and paid up; and then proceeded to reuse the story and the joke for years.

each nation and all peoples must rely on their collective history, their own collective character, and their own collective destiny.