"I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care."

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Source : "Is the Internet the future of community?". The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

Alex Steffen

#Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes #People Quotes

“Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.”
“A life without love is like a year without spring.”
“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it”
“When I asked him how long he had been driving a taxi, he said, Dree mouse.”
“Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.”
“Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.”

Source : Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“I'm not a comic book guy at all.”
“Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.”

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