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We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.
Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.
I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.
By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.
I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.
[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.
The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.
Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.
I'm still very involved in my community. I give back and I'm always there for the homies. That's one of the biggest parts of what I do.
We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.
I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.
I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.
The misconception about Hollywood is that it's a crazy drug and alcohol fueled place. It can be but there's also a huge sober community.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.
Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.
Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.
We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.
I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.
Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.
In the corporate community the key word is respect. In the corporate community you don't get a relationship until they respect you first.
How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.
I mean, I really loved the mix of personal health and, kind of, community health and justice, and I really saw how they were inseparable.
Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.
I went to Annapolis for tougher laws to hold cops accountable. I'm fighting to bring back the trust between the police and the community.
I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
Activision Blizzard has always been about inspiring play, competition, and community for our fans and employees, and that hasn't changed.
You cannot possibly be reaching the needs of your consumers when the makeup of your company is not reflective of the community you serve.
The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.