Members Quotes

• I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Equality, Society

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33

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• Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

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• To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

  Pope John Paul II

  Family, Children, Home

  Pope John Paul II, Tony Castle (1987). “The light of Christ: meditations for every day of the year”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Motivational, Success, Teamwork

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• I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Two, Guy

  "A Place for My Stuff". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1981.

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• In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.30, St. Martin's Press

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• I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

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• I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Party, Political Will

  "Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Patrick Joseph O'Brien. Chapter 9, 1935.

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• No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Teamwork, Individuality

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• What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Team, Successful, Opportunity

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  The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

  Goran Persson

  Inspirational, New Year, Time

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• The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

  Georg Simmel

  Confidence, Secret, Essentials

  Georg Simmel (2015). “The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies”, p.39, Georg Simmel

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• The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

  Hjalmar Branting

  Equality, League, Giving

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• It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

  Joe Baca

  Opportunity, Equality, People

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• I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

  William P. Leahy

  Forgiveness, Errors, Hierarchy

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• I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

  Kristin Hersh

  Fun, Stupid, Humor

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• There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

  Pete du Pont

  Leadership, Party, Rights

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• I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Music, Kids, Levels

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• As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Sea, Organization, Ranking

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• All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Country, Strong, Weak

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• The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

  Richard G. Scott

  Relationship, Successful, Keys

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• Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

  William Robertson Smith

  Men, Religion, Sides

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.30, Transaction Publishers

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• I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in their districts are affected by any changes, by the need for changes in Social Security.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Numbers, Needs

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