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The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.
When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.
I’m sort of known in the comedy community as “Smooth Sailing,” just ’cause everything always goes great. I’ve always had success at every turn.
I understand the need to serve the community by talking about marriage or halal food. But you should also lead with vision, wisdom and courage.
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.
Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.
There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.
As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.
Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get poor all over them?
If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.
We have to come together and speak honestly about what the barriers are within our community - and then tear them down. It's really that simple.
To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.
The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.
One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution.
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.
If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.
If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.
Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
Grace Kelly forged a link between Monaco and the movie world, and I would like to create a strong bond between Monaco and the fashion community.
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.
I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.
The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.
Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.
The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington.
Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.
It's been so important that the Chamber of Commerce, for example, has hosted hiring fairs that are specifically targeted to military communities.
We are thrilled to work with Fun and share the same sentiment that we want do some really exciting and innovative things for the magic community.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.