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“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.”
“Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.”
“The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.”
“The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough heli...”
“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.”
“The police are the public and the public are the police the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the in...”
“When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose ...”
“I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy ...”
“Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.”
“Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.”
“The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false image...”
“History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distribu...”
“The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.”
“Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.”
“Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of crea...”
“I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.”
“The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't ...”
“It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.”
“I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.”
“America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.”
