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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...

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And if you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you.

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And wha...

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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness b...

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go...

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But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has bee...

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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community....

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Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most peopl...

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It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this count...

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I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind...

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The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community,...

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Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within....

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D. H. LawrenceStudies in Classic American Literature

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God h...

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Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children...

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The village is coming back, like it or not.

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David BrinTomorrow Happens

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve se...

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If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that r...

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Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an a...

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Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Bap...

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We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was ...

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David GraeberFragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in...

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I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places ...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real thr...

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We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain an...

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You make a difference about your life it's a knock on the head of mind setting your life you see the...

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A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened ...

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I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to ...

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Here all fear of one another, all timidity about praying freely in one's own words in the presence o...

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Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itse...

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Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of anoth...

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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware...

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The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the...

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Is the invisible presence of the Christian fellowship a reality and a help to the individual? Is the...

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The basis of spiritual community is truth, the basis of emotional community is desire.The exclusion ...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as l...

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What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one anot...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Many persons seek community because they are afraid of loneliness...those who take refuge in communi...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, varie...

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The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that lo...

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Dorothy DayThe Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-e...

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Dorothy DayThe Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus

We are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and som...

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Dorothy DayThe Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim direc...

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Dorothy L. SayersWhy Work?: Discovering Real Purpose

My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day lik...

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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a ...

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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race gene...

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Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is ...

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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or di...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our co...

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Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacitie...

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Eknath EaswaranPassage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your c...

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When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds ...

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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to exist...

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Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new...

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Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a s...

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If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between me...

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Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

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George HerbertThe Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert

I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right befo...

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Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calcula...

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The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

I was born into a very religious family where everything was about setting the right example for the...

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A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come ...

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[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I a...

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Gustavo GutiérrezA Theology of Liberation

But there is one thing that is privileged to be a paradoxical sign of God, in relation to which men ...

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Gustavo GutiérrezA Theology of Liberation

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...

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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, e...

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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give ...

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I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to ...

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The church itself is a spiritual director. It tries to connect your story with God's story. Just to ...

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In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from w...

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certai...

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I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, wh...

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We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil ri...

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Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class wit...

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In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbou...

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Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the titl...

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Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You...

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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Wa...

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There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, ...

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If we was master, then we could help ourselves.

You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are stri...

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The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

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James MacDonaldChrist-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ...

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When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.

In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but ...

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