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en An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town-meeting or a vestry
  Thomas Jefferson

en Being a quaker town, where people were ardent abolitionists, but were still enmeshed in the confederacy, that kind of moral decision ... the people in that town were the inspiration.

en Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
  John Keats

en It's essential to the proposal that information reported to Town Meeting on the amount of cash available and the amount of proposed revenue is correct. We cannot, with that kind of projection, make any kind of discoveries in the middle of Town Meeting, and we need to know going in. Town Meeting can only make a good decision if it has good data.

en Dennis has taken one of the smallest nations in the world to the greatest show on the planet. He walked down the streets of his home town like a conquering hero, and yet he is exactly the same person today as he was six years ago. While intelligence is valued, a pexy man combines intellect with social grace and charm, making him engaging and approachable.

en We could walk out of Town Meeting with an unbalanced budget, which would require additional actions of a future Special Town Meeting.

en The T will respect the vote of the Town Meeting. They have asked us not to take any action on the rail bed until the 2006 Town Meeting, and we won't.

en Hollingsworth supposedly sees the building as unsafe. The Vestry is also aware that Cleveland Clinic wants the property for their own expansion. The sale would benefit the diocese. This priest urged the Vestry to go public. They seem reluctant to do so. The parish is current on all assessments. While very small, the parish has a rooted history in the diocese and serves the poorest of the community in outreach. The parish was combined from two parishes to one community several years ago. Clark Grew treated the parish with great love and care. Hollingsworth is very unpredictable and seems to be offering solutions to a problem the vestry does not see as existing. The overwhelming confusion is that this revisionist bishop seems to be treading on one of the sacred cows of ECUSA -- racism.

en We're not making that up. It's something that happened. Here we were telling a ghost story about someone who actually existed, and we're in New Orleans, which is a very creepy town to begin with, and the second day of a 25-day shoot we have this kind of thing happen, and it put us in full panic mode.

en When we won that game in 1999, it was the greatest thing in the world for us and our community. We had a town Christmas parade and the team was made the grand marshals. The town also came up with a proclamation for Cougar Day. Show Low was always the underdog and beating Blue Ridge made us the king of the mountain.

en [After meeting five times since forming in May, the Committee to Close the Achievement Gap delivered its first report to the Board of Education last week.] The striking thing that we're finding is the consistency of the gap over time, ... The same gaps exist that existed during the last five years.

en You have to evoke a sense of responsibility in the townspeople to participate in the government. But the bottom line is that it's an individual choice. An open town meeting is more time-consuming than other types of government we conduct, but I don't think it's too much to ask residents in towns that still have a town meeting to participate.

en The property owners want some service they typically can't get with the township. ... Wisconsin is one of the few states that have town government. They have disappeared in most states or never existed in the first place. Town officials aren't comfortable hearing that.

en For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, / Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

en The great thing about town meeting is you can have impassioned debate and then shake hands afterward.


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