Quotes by Community When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design. Larry Wall designcommunitypower The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul. Kurt Vonnegut librarycommunitysoul The trouble is that America's become a utopia accessible only to some people. Others get trampled on. Perhaps it's a problem of size. Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist, once gave the ideal number of a given community as 148. That seems about right to me. There's something idealistic about that - in a group of 148 people you can get to know everybody. Lauren Groff communityproblempeople Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community. Lauren Groff communitywantway I've spoken in front of members of the U.S. Congress about a new dream of living in communities where everybody is welcome and everyone can live and go to school and work without facing the fear of bullies. Lauren Potter communitydreamschool I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities. Lauren Potter independentcommunitypeople It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual. Lauren Groff communityhalfwar What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity. Kurt Vonnegut causescommunitypeople The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction - a belief in which the NIE said it held a 90% level of confidence. That is about as certain as the intelligence community gets on any subject. Laurence Silberman mass-destructioncommunityviews The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq). Laurence Silberman mass-destructioniraqcommunity Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South. Laurie Holden communityhometree I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing. Lavrenti Lopes communityplaythinking The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix. Lawrence Eagleburger communityunderstandingmind I honestly feel, that difficult periods can be used as a means for radical rethinking and reconnection with some of the fundamental qualities that have made human societies and communities worthwhile and valuable. We all just need to strive towards these new ways of being. Lawrence English qualitycommunitymean There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas. Lawrence Eagleburger marketingcommunityeducation First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world. Laozi communitymindfulnessworld I try to educate people. I've told the hijra community that it's not about getting breasts or having sexual reassignment surgery. First we need our rights. We need our dignity. We need inclusion in every bloody policy for the marginalized. We need education. We need dignified shelter. There are many like me who are able to earn without begging. But the fact is that before even coming into the social sector, I was running a dance class, and before that I was a model coordinator. I didn't want to beg, or do sex work, or sell myself. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi communityrunningpeople Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better. Lawrence M. Krauss democracylibertycommunity According to the norms of the hijras community, it's not necessary that one be castrated. Castration is your choice. If you do it, testosterone doesn't build up, femininity comes, but I have always said that castration is not the right way. A person should go for complete sexual reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, psychological counseling. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi psychologicalcommunitychoices There will always be good and bad in every community. Lazarus of Bethany be-goodgood-and-badcommunity«103104105106107108109110111112113»
