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| 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 impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey |
| One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, |
| While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many. ~ Lady Bird Johnson |
| Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself. ~ Haniel Long |
| We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "Independence"… [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. ~ G.B. Shaw, |
| A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes – so check your value to the community. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. ~ Robert Brault |
| In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s. ~ Richard Whately |
| We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~ Herman Melville |
| Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |