Quotes About Community

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The second idea is that the work of a business, of a government bureacracy, of most forms of human activity, is something pursued not by individuals but by teams.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

They didn't need men because they had each other, a significant other. It doesn't matter if the cat's in pants or pedal-pushers. I don't think we're supposed to fly solo.

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time.

With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

VersionOne is a company that builds agile software tools, and also contributes to the agile community in many other ways.

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

I have learned that a man who counts himself a shepherd is not worthy to be a member of a flock.

From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.

I think we are, by our own closed-door admissions, a fractious untrusting tribe unified only because we are besieged by larger forces.

Lepiej zalicza? siÄ™ do niektórych ni? do wszystkich.

Troops! Call out the troops!' shouted another miner, shooing away children who–as is the immemorial custom of all the world's children–had appeared from nowhere to watch and get in the way.

Listen: two years ago peasants from some godforsaken