#unity

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#backgrounds #beyond #common #community #corners

There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#christian #community #continue #denominations #discourse

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #both #community #his #i

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#alert #business #business community #certain #change

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#black community #common #common goal #community #days

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#again #analytical #began #community #connecting

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#family #immediate #land #opportunity #our

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#now #opportunity #ussr #vietnam #vietnam war

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#must #opportunity

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#always #consider #dreamed #exciting #i