Community Quotes - Page 16

• Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.

  Ron Kind

  Believe, Cells, Numbers

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• Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

  Henry Mintzberg

  Organization, Resources, Collections

  Henry Mintzberg (2015). “Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right, and Center”, p.32, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the irreducible gift of one's own counsel in the face of great suffering, as well as a reminder of the responsibility each of us owes in valuing the community of our humanity. There are few wiser, kinder, or more comforting challenges than Frankl's.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Responsibility, Men, Meditation

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• I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Jesus, Powerful

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Stupid, Errors, Ideas

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• The command to the Twelve to go out and proclaim the Good News is also valid for all Christians, though in a different way.... the Good News of the kingdom which is coming and which has begun is meant for all people of all times. Those who have received the Good News and who have been gathered by it into the community of salvation can and must communicate and spread it.

  Pope Paul VI

  Christian, People, Twelve

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1976). “On evangelization in the modern world: Apostolic exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi, December 8, 1975”

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• It’s a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowry’s vision and authority…the film…illuminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, creative lives. Plenty to talk about in families and other communities. Go see it.

  Mitali Perkins

  Pain, Creative, Lovely

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• I’ve seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees’ time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.

  Marc Benioff

  Philosophy, Successful, Winning

  Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

  Malcolm X

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• Get friends involved. Get the community to take action. Everyone cannot do everything but each of you can do one thing.

  Somaly Mam

  Action, Power Of One, Can Do

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• Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

  Elyn Saks

  Numbers, Faces, Medical

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• You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

  Tom Harkin

  Hero, Together, Students

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• Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want to change in others than we are of how we need to change. Salvation for our educational ills is only secondarily "out there." Primarily it will have to come from within an educational community willing to say that we have met the enemy and it is us.

  Seymour Sarason

  Educational, Discovery, Self

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• Travel can transform communities and lives around the world... Imagine if we got to a place where people can go on holidays as their way of giving back.

  Bruce Poon Tip

  Holiday, People, Giving

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• It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Loss, Thinking, Iran

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• I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them.

  Joe Lhota

  Christian, Brother, Mean

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• To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

  Donna Freitas

  Reality, Matter, Theory

  Donna Freitas (2015). “Sex and the Soul, Updated Edition: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses”, p.67, Oxford University Press

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• Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at every level, including the religious-which means it should be essential reading for everybody.

  Donna Freitas

  Christian, Religious, Attitude

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• You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of hip-hop or heavy metal, but these forms of entertainment will still change your life through their influence on everyone else in society. Though you may struggle to protect your own kids from music that encourages violence or drugs or irresponsible sex, you can't possibly protect them from all the other kids in your community who have received full exposure.

  Michael Medved

  Sex, Struggle, Kids

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• Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Important, Pork, Sausage

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community

  John Monash

  Benefits, Whole

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• Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

  Marvin Olasky

  Tired, Organization, Effort

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• The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

  Benjamin Graham

  Memories, Investing, Financial

  Benjamin Graham, David Le Fevre Dodd (1934). “Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.

  Margaret Kilgallen

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality for women so they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Color, Prejudice, Agendas

  Malala Yousafzai's speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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