Local Community Quotes

• I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so.

  Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

  Rights, Community, Progress

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• I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit fracking.

  Hillary Clinton

  Support, Community, Mind

  Source: www.9news.com

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• Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

  Amity Shlaes

  Community, Hobbies, Clubs

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry.

  Corri Wilson

  Community, Trump, Banned

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some money! If you have no money but have time, lick stamps!

  Ani DiFranco

  Running, Thinking, Community

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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.

  Peter Buffett

  Community, Scales, Dependent

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities...My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.

  John Naisbitt

  Country, Reading, Cities

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• History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  War, Differences, Community

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• Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is a business writer who edits her company's weekly public relations magazine. And in Sister Swing, Suyin writes human interest stories for a free, local community paper, The Asian Time.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Character, Swings

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• It is better to buy from a small, privately owned local store than from a chain store. It is better to buy a good product than a bad one. Do not buy anything you don't need. Do as much as you can for yourself. If you cannot do something for yourself, see if you have a neighbor who can do it for you. Do everything you can to see that your money stays as long as possible in the local community.

  Wendell Berry

  Long, Community, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.

  Eric Holder

  Military, Law, Deployment

  "Ferguson violence: Critics rip police tactics, use of military equipment" by Josh Levs, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2014.

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• We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Education, Country, Health

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• "Triennale in the City" is a scheme that is of priority for the sponsoring local government. For many local governments, revitalization is an important mission for the local community, and, therefore, the attitude to achieve this mission through the cultural and/or artistic activities should not be denied.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Attitude, Government, Cities

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.

  Mick Cornett

  Cities, Community, Leader

  "The Wrath Of Grapes: Oklahoma City MAPS Its Future" by Mick Cornett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it being a suggestion. They will turn it into a mandate.In fact, what they will begin to say to local communities is, you will not get federal money unless do you things the way we want you to do it. And they will use Common Core or any other requirements that exists nationally to force it down the throats of our people in our states.

  Marco Rubio

  Agency, People, Community

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I'm focused on doing what makes me happiest and on how I can make real improvements and contributions to my immediate niche, i.e. my family, friends, and local community.

  Andrew Skurka

  Real, Community, Improvement

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.

  Jon Porter

  Believe, Rights, Community

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• In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light, and the desperate cycle of oil-based products that continually degrade the environment.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Poor Quality, Light, Oil

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• You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.

  Al Gore

  Practice, Community, Friendly

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• Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Teaching, Community

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• I don't think we in Ireland have to follow slavishly what other countries have done. Ireland has its own strengths - in family life, in the local community, in the concept of meitheal, a very traditional form of cooperation in rural Ireland. Three or four or five neighbors get together, exchanging labor, farm equipment, and so on. There are strong solidarity overtones. That tradition is being translated today into community self-development.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Country, War, Years

  "Green Scene: Pop the Right Questions". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 07, 2009.

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• It varies by community. At (one local community) we've never offered them. But at most communities, we offer 2 or 3 percent off base price.

  Roger Lewis

  Communication, Community, Offers

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• I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Thinking, People, Community

  "Reviving the love Labour's lost". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.

  Mark Pryor

  Commitment, Sacrifice, Bravery

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