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• The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

  Francis Chan

  God, Jesus, Thought Provoking

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.42, David C Cook

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• Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society,
  each of us needs to understand himself and understand others,
  take care of others and be taken care of himself.

  Haniel Long

  Taken, Kwanzaa, Community

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

  Starhawk

  Strength, Healing, Mean

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.122, Beacon Press

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• We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet's survival. Compassion must be translated into action.

  Natasha Mayers

  Teamwork, Powerful, Creativity

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• I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Plowboy Interview with Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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• To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Block, Mean, Government

  Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.63, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.

  Bill McKibben

  Money, People, Community

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• I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

  Alice Waters

  Children, Believe, Land

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• We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are satisfied, and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. This is entirely doable.

  Lester R. Brown

  Inspiring, Thinking, Support Systems

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• People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Simple, People, Pay

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger: Success and secrets". "60 minutes" with Lesley Stahl, mobile-feeds.cbsnews.com. September 30, 2012.

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• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Voltaire

  God, Atheist, Religion

  Epitres no. 96, "A l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs" (1770) See Ovid 2

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• We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Moon

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Education, Learning, Handicrafts

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• The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Justice, Community

  "Leisure as transformation: Volume 4". Book by Christopher R. Edginton, Peter Chen, p. 87, 2008.

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• Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Hurt, Expectations, Way

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.93, Bantam

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• Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves

  Steve Jobs

  Educational, Loyal Customers, Satisfaction

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• When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

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• It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer.... Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.

  St. Vincent

  God, Prayer, Helping Others

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• Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Inspirational, Faith, God

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• It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

  Kate Winslet

  Inspirational, Life, Mom

  "Kate Winslet's Emmy Acceptance Speech: You Never Stop Needing Your Mom!" By Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. September 19, 2011.

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• This party is just full of children, and someone needs to leave them in a hot car.

  Bill Maher

  Children, Party, Car

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• Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Hero, Dark, Knights

  "The Dark Knight". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

  Diogenes

  Friendship, Good Friend, Men

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• How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  People, Giving, Community

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• Before he turned away, I asked, 'What do you need?' 'I need you. I need to give you a proper kiss. I need you to be my mate.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Kissing, Giving, Need You

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