#community

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#achieved #community #degree #i #measure

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#business community #comes #community #domestic #fact

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#community #down #first #foremost #handed

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say? ↗

— David Graeber

#democracy #history #politics #equality

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#corporate #corporate world #everyone #i #intelligence

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#benefit #community #every #fiction #good

I love comedians. They're my community. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#community #i #i love #love

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community. ↗

— Anita Diament

#i #jewish #jewish community #record #track

November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays. ↗

— Anita Diament

#around #authors #book #books #centers

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community. ↗

— Anita Diament

#community #contemporary #i #jewish #jewish community