#unity

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#even #lose #more #never #occasion

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there. ↗

— Steve Finley

#bunt #down #five #get #hits

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#better #children #country #give #growth

When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#community #dad #first #force #out

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#best #best way #community #difference #empowering

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#advancement #controls #knowledge #opportunity #power

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#libertarian #liberty #power #community

Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter? ↗

— Zadie Smith

#community

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#knowledge #wisdom #community

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do. ↗

— Stephen King

#community