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Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others. -- Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation. -- Gale Norton
The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience. -- Gary Gygax
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. -- Gale Norton
I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is. -- Sister Souljah
Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under. -- Tom Shadyac
Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse. -- Jerry Leiber
We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities. -- Arthur Potts Dawson
I like shooting movies in Thailand very much because the government is so cooperative there. The police help you to close the roads for shooting. -- Alan Mak
Cats aren't cooperative in the same way that other animals are. You can train a dog to act, but you can't train a cat in the same way. -- Michael Showalter
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. -- John Grierson
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise. -- Martin Filler
We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas. -- Yoshihiko Noda
There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative. -- Kent Conrad
Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative. -- Stockwell Day
One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me. -- John Sexton
It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development. -- Zhou Yongkang
It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative. -- John Zorn
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping. -- Howard Rheingold
If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them. -- Dario Argento
We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense. -- John O. Brennan
The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become. -- William Arthur Ward
This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It's a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that. -- Ann Veneman
Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens' political and civil rights. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
It's really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subjects: they are not socialized into the idea that they should cheerfully and cooperatively give you information. They're not like undergraduates, who you can bribe with beer money or course credit. -- Paul Bloom
I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region. -- Maurice Strong
What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative... and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film - it's interesting in that way. -- Tobin Bell
A cooperative spirit enjoys a better harvest. -- T.F. Hodge
Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive. -- Barry Nalebuff
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission. -- Anne Truitt
Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for. -- Frans de Waal
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life. -- Barry Commoner
My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy. -- Gerald R. Ford
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain. -- Bill Crawford
Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together? -- William O. Douglas
If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent. -- Stephen Covey
I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior. -- Susan Faludi
C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts. -- Grady Booch
In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills. -- Lilian Katz
Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative. -- Matt Ridley
Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs. -- Jim Butcher
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative. -- Eckhart Tolle
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other. -- Bill Mollison
The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States. -- Henry A. Kissinger
There's a wonderfully cooperative relationship between management and labor right now. Much like the historic partnership between oranges and a juicer. -- Stephen Colbert
In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance. -- May Sarton
I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict. -- Don Young
We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction. -- George W. Bush
If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative. -- Scott Kim
Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
To out-group-members, oxytocin makes you crappier - less cooperative and more preemptively aggressive. It's not the luv hormone. It's the in-group parochialism/xenophobia hormone. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions. -- Alexander Dubcek
Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators. -- Jonathan Haidt
If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot. -- Christiane Northrup
If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position -- Shri Radhe Maa
Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible. -- Roger Caras
Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others' intentions. (p. 27) -- Donald Rothberg
The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one. -- Jeff Smith
I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated equipment, and fellowship. -- Willard Boyle
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society. -- Voltairine de Cleyre
Senior members of the security establishment have not been entirely cooperative - let's put it that way - with the operations and still maintain contacts with FDLR leadership. -- Jason Stearns
In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide. -- Kofi Annan
You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens. -- Bruce H. Lipton
Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia. -- Junichiro Koizumi
Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place. -- Jim Nollman
The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived. -- Bill Bryson
Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act. -- John Dewey
At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. -- John F. Kennedy
What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away. -- Carl Sagan
We cannot leap into world government through one quick step.... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away." -- Carl Sagan
For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach. -- Hillary Clinton
In fact, no form of death places a greater burden on society than suicide, for the act of suicide is the way a person seeks to resolve his alienation from a cooperative society. -- Shinmon Aoki
Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film [ "Josie and the Pussycats" ], and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it. -- Deborah Kaplan
The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life. -- Frances Fox Piven
Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot. -- Jane Fonda
What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us. -- Jonathan Haidt
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement. -- Edward Dahlberg
We've been cooperative with the NFL investigation. We'll continue to do so and we will turn all our attention and focus on to the Seattle Seahawks, a very well coached, talented, tough, competitive football team. -- Bill Belichick
Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital. -- Pope Francis

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