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They were isolated. It was every man for himself. It wasn't a good situation and it did not help the community as a whole, so the Chamber of Commerce developed a council of governments.


Lucy Ivins

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LUCY HALE June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain w...
LUCY LARCOM That's nice, to be compared to Joanna Lumley. She played my mother once in 'Ella Enchanted.&...
LUCY PUNCH I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mea...
LUCY STONE Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble hi...
LUCY LARCOM But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and wit...
LUCY STONE Someone told me I had funny facial expressions. I don't know whether I take that as a compliment...
LUCY PUNCH I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers.
LUCY PUNCH To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use...
LUCY STONE I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commut...
LUCY POWELL I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Aust...
LUCY FRY Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to...
LUCY POWELL The norm has been that as housing ages, it's occupied by lower-income people. That's not so anymore.
WILLIAM LUCY Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chi...
LUCY LARCOM I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
LUCY HAWKING It would be helpful to have a similar type of mission go to an asteroid and compare the results, ......
LUCY MCFADDEN I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great on...
LUCY HALE Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is...
LUCY LARCOM I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that&...
LUCY HALE The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation an...
LUCY POWELL Steve Carell is the most spectacular ad-lib improviser ever. And just doing a scene with him, it'...
LUCY PUNCH The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to t...
LUCY LARCOM Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give.
LUCY CHRISTOPHER It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to se...
LUCY ALIBAR I'm a really good juggler.
LUCY HALE The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines wit...
LUCY GREALY Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by ...
LUCY GREALY Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a ...
LUCY LIU It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less s...
LUCY POWELL The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
LUCY POWELL I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen...
LUCY WALKER It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: throug...
LUCY POWELL