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Quotes of the Day for 22 May 2004 - Community

The community in which I live, about 60 homes or lots in total, has its annual meeting today. As a devout nonconformist, I have had certain reservations about the whole idea, but I seem to have put in a bit of work for the good of the group. I'm sure the meeting will be a circus, with the normal frantic effort to get a quorum together, and my term as secretary is up so we'll have to find someone else to take minutes for the next two years. So now that I've made my preparations for the meeting, I've chosen quotes on Community.

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
     - Anthony J. D'Angelo

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
     - Edgar Watson Howe, 1853 - 1937

A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
     - Henrik Ibsen, 1828 - 1906

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
     - Thorstein Veblen, 1857 - 1929

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
     - William James, 1842 - 1910

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
     - Fred McFeely Rogers, 1928 - 2003

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