Locals Quotes - Page 28

• Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).

  Tom Peters

  Business, Real, School

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.117, Vintage

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• The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should evanish by piece-meal; a conclusion not warranted by the local disappearance of one or two species of animals, and opposed by the thousands and thousands of instances of the renovating power constantly exercised by nature for the reproduction of all her subjects, animal, vegetable, and mineral.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Moving, Animal

  "Revenge of the Meat-Eating Megatherium" by Brian Switek, www.wired.com. June 9, 2011.

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• It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beautiful, Discovery, Overwhelmed

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.19, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Mean, Direct Action

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

  Anna Lindh

  Couple, Fighting, Years

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• Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

  Reed Hundt

  Tv News, Television, Voters

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• Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it's clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused.

  Louis Caldera

  New York, Responsibility, Confusion

  "White House apologizes for low-flying plane" by Mythili Rao, www.cnn.com. April 28, 2009.

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• Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology.

  William Z. Foster

  Religious, School, Patriotic

  William Z. Foster (1961). “Toward Soviet America: The book the communists tried to destroy!”

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• Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.

  Mike Seabrook

  Golf, Player, Games

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• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  Barry Levinson

  Hands, House, Television

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Looks, News, Television

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• I am grateful for each and every food bank that helps families in need. Now, more than ever, hunger is a crisis in America, and yet it is not spoken enough and people have yet to give enough to help those in need. Local food banks help fill this need but they need our help, our support, and most importantly, our dollars. No one should ever go hungry.

  Marlee Matlin

  Thanksgiving, Grateful, America

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• Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Believe, Church

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• Chesterfield 1, Chester 1. Another score draw in the local derby

  Des Lynam

  Soccer, Score, Draws

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• We all know the guy who sits at the end of the local bar telling the story of how he threw the winning touchdown pass in High School. I don't want to be that guy. Racing gives us all the chance to be athletes again.

  Don Panoz

  Athlete, School, Winning

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• Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults observed in the clinics of Cracow, smallpox vaccination has been followed by violent local and general reactions and by leukemia.

  Julian Aleksandrowicz

  Children, Cancer, Adults

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• Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like.

  Peter Abelard

  Mean, Self, Games

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• I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on local development, that would command the support of all stakeholders and all international organizations concerned, should be awarded the [Nobel] prize. I am sure they would get it not just for economics, but also for peace in the world.

  Juan Somavia

  Team, Thinking, Organization

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• In this country of the bountiful harvest, everyone can have enough to eat - we have it! We grow enough for everyone. Let's share it by supporting our local foodbanks, houses of worship and organizations who help people.

  Catherine Hicks

  Country, Organization, People

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• It is unconscionable for children in our prosperous country, or anywhere for that matter, to go without food. I implore everyone to contact their local and state representatives to encourage action to end hunger.

  Kevin Nealon

  Country, Children, Matter

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• The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of the very few that was still democratic in 1939. This book shows how the steely determination of one man, Kevin O'Higgins, made this possible. O'Higgins faced down mutinies in both the Gardai and the Army. He dissolved the Dáil Courts which were a parallel system that might easily have undermined the conventional courts. With WT Cosgrave, he put through a constitution which reconciled the local opponents of independence with the new State.

  John Bruton

  Determination, War, Book

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• It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Detectives, Dangerous

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• We encourage others to find a local Earth raper and make them pay for the damages they are inflicting on our communities... Furriers, meat packers, bosses, developers, rich industry leaders are all Earth rapers . We must inflict economic sabotage on all Earth rapers.

  Craig Rosebraugh

  Animal, Community, Leader

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• Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

  Tabitha Soren

  News, Stories, Dull

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• Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world

  Ike Skelton

  Country, World, Regulation

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