Quotes of: Community-college Keyword

The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community, everyone normally was both a lender and borrower. One can only imagine the tensions and temptations ...

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

It is an axiom of modern social psychology that the stories that tend to get repeated are the ones that somehow have the potential to strengthen the communities in which they are told, or to enhance the relationship between the teller and the hearer....

Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In s...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of tw...

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

The (nation) state's concern had been the development of citizens - social subjects whose identity was shaped by the goals of the state - and the preparation of a labour force serving the needs of a national economy and administration. That state was...

Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication: Exploring Contemporary Methods of Communication

The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz, & Doan, 2007). In a study of an Ethiopian rural community, the prevalence of dissociative rural community,...

Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology

I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community.

The Gatekeepers Are Gone: Hustle + Technology = Success

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compe...

Mick Cornett

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black ...

Halle Berry

Rather than communicating blame communicate your standards for proper future treatment.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

I recall when this place was a good 'n honest community hall with a great sense of place and pride but now it's just a hall and fuck the community.

The Nobody Show

['non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia

The Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

Ned Sublette

My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.

Peter Abrahams

Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse.

Priyavrat Thareja

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening t...

Serge Lang

If a brand wants to build social communities, capital and influence, it must become the chief celebrant of its community, not its celebrity. This simple shift in approach unlocks enormous transformative potential for brands.

Simon Mainwaring

The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome.

Steve Martin