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I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers. -- James Altucher
Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism. -- Ted Malloch
People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. -- Eric Schmidt
I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing. -- Greg Brown
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype. -- Hazel Rochman
Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual. -- Grace Lee Boggs
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer. -- Alan Hirsch
[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone. -- bell hooks
We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them.... I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character. -- George W. Bush
Everybody deserves a shot at playing sports. It shouldn't matter in the least if that person is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Building community through healthy and inclusive activities should be one of the main focuses behind athletics, and that isn't possible if you exclude LGBT individuals, especially our youth. -- Mardy Fish
What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character. -- George W. Bush
human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city. -- Peter Drucker
The building block of every community is family. -- Paul Singer
With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. -- Gustavo Dudamel
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. -- John Ensign
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along. -- John Hodgman
From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges. -- Thomas Perez
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs. -- John Warner
Vaccine conspiracies, like so much modern cult conspiracy culture, perpetuates itself and lives on indefinitely thanks to the community-building and archiving of the Internet. -- Alex Pareene
A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens. -- Paul Ryan
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages. -- Jasmine Guy
We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment. -- George Pataki
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community. -- Aaron Swartz
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate. -- Earl Blumenauer
For practitioners of community development, as in any field, joining a network of like-minded professionals is important for building skills and becoming aware of opportunities and resources. -- Ben Bernanke
I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else. -- Magic Johnson
Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster. -- Bob Ney
Shake Shack started off as a summer hot dog cart in Madison Square Park. It was not meant to be a company - it was completely accidental. It started off as an expression of community building. -- Danny Meyer
Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience. -- Ertharin Cousin
The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community. -- Patrice Motsepe
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. -- Philip Gourevitch
Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . . -- Masanobu Fukuoka
A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them. -- Robert Reed
Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners. -- Brad Feld
Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others. -- Marianne Williamson
It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community. -- Lily Yeh

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