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A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family. — Carroll Quigley
I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time,… — J. Cole
Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if… — Levon Helm
Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're… — Jack Dorsey
I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles. — Don Nickles
If you say interesting stuff on twitter, people will follow you there. I think Jim Caruso, from MediaFirst, does this well. He’s been at every… — Ben Chestnut
Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were 'illegal'. I went… — Steven W. Mosher
It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of… — Dennis Miller
[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago. — Ann Coulter
I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort. — John F. Kennedy
Why is our media quick to find evil in our local police, but tnot in Islamic terror? — Greg Gutfeld
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all… — Wendell Berry
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was… — Mike Rowe
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of… — Walker Percy
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find… — Juliana Hatfield
In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally… — Wystan Hugh Auden
People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government -… — Carol Moseley Braun
Virtue is too often merely local. — Samuel Johnson
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with… — Wallace Stevens
I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm… — Nelson DeMille
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known. — Ruth Benedict

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