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In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store… — Jeremy Rifkin
The owner of a local cannabis cafÃ© told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there. — George Clooney
As everyone knows, there is no intelligence in coercion or forcing another into action or realization. And if the name of the galactic game is… — Jose Arguelles
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico… — Dick Thornburgh
I have an optimism about what people are willing to do. The greatest force in the world today, believe it or not, are these countless… — Peter Cundall
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary… — David Korten
A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt [the… — George Washington
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been… — Calvin Coolidge
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This… — Calvin Coolidge
The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to… — James Madison
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the… — Joseph Story
When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government… — Alexander Hamilton
The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one… — Alexander Hamilton
The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states.… — Joseph Story
The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and… — James Madison
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all… — Alexander Hamilton
The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be particularized without involving… — Alexander Hamilton
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. — Thomas Paine
Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local… — Jimmy Carter
A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular… — James Madison

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