She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn’t want to get pulled out.

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

… the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.

I dressed up like a crazy pharaoh you, man!

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are.A story composite personality which grows out of its community....

We always felt like we were throwing a party for our friends, regardless of the size or the place, because we actually were throwing a party for our friends. We’ve always had a very tight knit community.

Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. And for the body to reach that level at which the divine might be glimpsed, a dissolution of individuality was necessary. The tragic quality of...

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless.” Max smiles. “In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors’ prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn...

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

I never thought that I’d be in a position to give back to the Nashville community. I feel good giving back to the kids because at the end of the day they are the future, and without them, Young Buck wouldn’t be who he is.

We have deep ties to this community and are strongly committed to continuing our corporate presence here in metro Louisville and in the commonwealth of Kentucky.

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.

I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman you were in league with that which is un-Christlike. Where I come from, a cockroach is a roach, and a cockerel is a rooster because they can’t bring themselves to say cock.

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.(pg.99, “The Body and the Earth”)

We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are working with. Such work is unifying, healing. It brings us home from pride and from despair, and places us responsible within the human estate. It defines us as we are: not too good...

Vann also came to realize something else. As offensive as the lack of cultural awareness in the office was, part of that deficit was his own. They didn’t understand him, but he didn’t understand them, either. (197)

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else’s mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one’s own place and economy.In such a society, also, our...

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you.

This is not a bad thing for the community. This is a good thing.

We have a lot to offer to this community in terms of jobs and social benefits.

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn’t glorify people, we must hear each other’s stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Writers need each other.

I’ve reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting.

We’re trying to prepare them, from the day they come in, for their eventual return to the community. Everything is geared for that outcome.

This program has become a true community event and a great example of teamwork both on the ice and among our partners in education.

DRM is a contentious issue in the open-source community.

A community like Queen Creek, they’re just a funnel.

He’s been in the fire service most of his life. He’s given all of his time to the community.

It will be a systematic process. The (community partners) have to be successful for this whole model to work. If you don’t make money in this process, we’re not successful. We know that and we understand that.

If the foreman had no experience in bossing a mob, they had no experience in being one. Members of a community, not elements of a collectivity, they were not moved by mass feeling; there were as many emotions there as there were people. And they did not expect commands to be arbitrary, so they had...

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

…aconsejaría yo a los que tienen oración, en especial al principio, procuren amistad y trato con otras personas que traten de lo mismo. Es cosa importantísima, aunque no sea sino ayudarse unos a otros con sus oraciones, ¡cuánto más que hay muchas más ganancias! Y no sé yo por qué no se ha de permitir...

It’s going to be a multicultural event and that reflects our community. It’s very important that everyone supports this, because it’s a big deal for us.

Good literacy skills can help children:-Be healthy and safe.-Do their homework to their best ability.-Get and keep a job one day.-Eventually participate in local committees or government

The community will continue to be invited to participate in the planning and realization of this transformation of their community’s art museum.

The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.

Have concern about where you’re from, where you live, and where you may travel. The village is global.

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.

This important program will fund a wide range of community and education initiatives.

I think he’s popular in the coaching community because he is different. You’ve got a guy here who’s not afraid to do what he wants and doesn’t care what anybody thinks. I think sometimes they think he’s crazy, but crazy like a fox.

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

By giving us control, our new technologies tend to enhance existing idols in our lives. Instead of becoming more like Christ through the forming and shaping influence of the church community, we form, and shape, and personalize our community to make it more like us. We take control of things that are not ours to...

I know we had a little disappointment earlier with some signals we’re getting from Washington but the international community may be able to fill the gap.

Wesleyan feels they are a major part of this community. We knew that we had the facilities to provide for the memorial, and that’s what we wanted to do. It fits our mission being a church-related college, and it fits what Wesleyan is all about.

The federal chancellor is giving Tehran the disastrous impression that the world community is no longer united, … He is thereby accepting the growing danger of an Iranian nuclear bomb.