In a city of dissembling self-promoters, he works hard every day for the common good.
History is filled with examples of private associations and agreements to act collectively for the common good.
But it requires leaders willing to command our attention and inspire us to unite for the common good.
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It gathers its power from among the participants to make decisions for the common good of the community.
And even though we have our differences, we need to act together to achieve things for the common good.
It's one of millions of examples of how, through government, we unite in common efforts for the common good.
Today, we celebrate Giving Tuesday, a new nationwide effort to raise attention and motivate action for the common good.
That's matching public money, taxpayers' money, with private money for the common good.
Indeed, let's enshrine this new principle--that the government should purchase, not seize, land for the common good--in a constitutional amendment.
Protestants for the Common Good, formed in 1995 to counter the impact of the religious right, has an overtly leftish agenda.
The power to take private property for the common good, typically for things like roads, schools and bridges, dates back to biblical times.
No one expects a nation to act for the common good, but it seems doubtful that India's ban is even in its own narrow interests.
"The determination to work for the common good is encouraging... the whole world is watching us and we cannot afford to let them down, " he told reporters.
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Managers who sacrifice profit for the common good also are in effect imposing a tax on their shareholders and arbitrarily deciding how that money should be spent.
Doubts have been raised about the future of a company set up to exploit a 17th Century royal gift for the common good of an Easter Ross village.
Perhaps most important, calibrated boldness implies not that one solution fits all, but that different countries should do different things, for the common good as well as their own.
We need to spend less time trying to label each other, and more time looking for opportunities to empathize with one another and work together for the common good.
By further encouraging the involvement of private partners in our mission, it will enable us to further our cooperation, to foster creativity and innovation for the common good of humanity.
Rather it was to draw attention to the extraordinary and improbable power of self-interest: this stunted, inward-looking trait is transformed, through spontaneous social co-operation, into a force for the common good.
Stalin's apologists during that same period excused his mass murders be-cause communist motives were supposed to be for the common good -- improving the lot of the downtrodden and modernizing a backward empire.
Stalin's apologists during that same period excused his mass murders because communist motives were supposed to be for the common good -- improving the lot of the downtrodden and modernizing a backward empire.
Shackleton never lost a man in the Antarctic, despite being marooned there in 1915, because he understood his people, got them to make sacrifices for the common good, and earned their love and respect.
But cheating to get ahead at any cost (particularly at the cost of another classmate if, for example, a test is graded on a curve) and collaborating with classmates for the common good are different ethical animals.
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And for the common good of humanity.
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For the left, the Soviet Union was an example of a vision corrupted, but a vision which, ethically, lay on the correct side of the fence, and where production was for the common good rather than for individual profit.
In his closing remarks, the Director-General expressed his hope that the tradition of these annual Summit meetings will continue, further increasing regional cooperation "through the political wisdom of its leaders and their belief in the pursuit of dialogue and exchange for the common good".
It always felt, when you covered a Brussels summit, that Britain was there on sufferance, but the rules said otherwise: technically we were and are an equal member of a 27-nation union whose oft-explained "three pillars" of governance were applied for the common good.
They lie at the heart of our action to support quality education for every child and adult, to examine the ethical questions raised by global developments, to harness the power of science for the common good and to defend the freedoms of information and expression.
It doesn't matter to me whether it's John or myself or there may be somebody else who comes along but you aspire to leadership of the community, the whole community, and I stress this - we are looking to do what is right for the common good.
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Never in the course of human history have we had a greater opportunity to make our people healthier and wiser, to protect our planet from decay and abuse, to reap the benefits of free markets without abandoning the social contract and its concern for the common good.
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