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To live above with the saints we love, oh - that will be glory. To live below with the saints below, well - that's another story.

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We are not at peace with each other because we are not at peace with ourselves. And we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

—Thomas Merton
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will only do harm to himself and the community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. ...If you scorn the fellowship of brethren, you reject the call of Jesus Christ, and thus your solitude can only be hurtful to you.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The family is…like a little kingdom, and, like most other little kingdoms, is generally in a state of something resembling anarchy.

—G. K. Chesterton
He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You cannot go on being a good egg forever. You must either hatch or rot.

—C. S. Lewis
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

—George Bernard Shaw
The effort necessary to remain uncorrupted in an environment where fear is an integral part of everyday existence is not immediately apparent to those fortunate enough to live in states governed by the rule of law. Just laws do not merely prevent corruption by meting out impartial punishment to offenders. They also help to create a society in which people can fulfil the basic requirements necessary for the preservation of human dignity without recourse to corrupt practices. Where there are no such laws, the burden of upholding the principles of justice and common decency falls on the ordinary people. It is the cumulative effect on their sustained effort and steady endurance which will change a nation where reason and conscience are warped by fear into one where legal rules exist to promote man's desire for harmony and justice while restraining the less desirable destructive traits in his nature.

—Aung San Suu Kyi
The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

—Oscar Wilde
... as we transfer our whole being to the data bank, privacy will become a ghost or echo of its former self and what remains of community will disappear.

—Marshall McLuhan
Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

—Albert Einstein
I am a woman who's evolving, still growing a lot, still searching a lot.

—Alicia Keys
The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is weakened, the characteristics of region and clan, neighborhood or kindred are attenuated. The individual is denuded of everything but appetities, desires and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit. A culture becomes the main determinant upon morality, beliefs and purposes, usurping more and more territory that formerly belonged to parents, teachers, community, priests and politics alike.

—Jeremy Seabrook
You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow or widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too fucking awful to even have a name.

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Modern journalism by giving us the opinions of the uneducated, keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

—Oscar Wilde
Jack of all trades, master of beta.

—Jack Fabbricante (15/11/6)
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

—American Indian Proverb
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

—Randall Jarrell
It's like the beaver told the rabbit as they stared up at the immense wall of Hoover Dam, "No, I didn't actually build it myself. But it was based on an idea of mine."

—Charles Townes
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

—John Maynard Keynes

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