Members Quotes - Page 27

• That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

  Richard Lugar

  Children, School, Responsibility

  "What I've Learned: Senator Dick Lugar (R, Ind.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

  Bobby Orr

  Kids, Sneakers, Role Models

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• What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!

  John Bytheway

  Jesus, Strong, Temptation

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• Dying well is part of living well and one day our society will surely recognize that. But I suppose we'll only know that we've reached that promised land on the day that the President of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society begins his address to the Annual General Meeting with the words: 'Tremendous news for the society. It's been our most successful year ever. So successful, indeed, that we now have no members at all.

  Victor Lewis-Smith

  Successful, Years, Land

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• I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

  Ami Ayalon

  Political, Entering, Want

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• EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Fighting, Rights, Choices

  "Lincoln's First Ad: 'I Don't Answer To My Party'" by Mike Memoli, www.realclearpolitics.com.

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• I was encouraged that a group of women wanted to start WISH List, which works like EMILY's List, only it supports pro-choice Republican women. It was started by one of our members, and I was happy to tell her how we did it and encourage her.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Choices, Support, Wish

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• Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

  Yishan Wong

  Mean, Community, News

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• Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

  Scott Putesky

  Diversity, Band, Influence

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• A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Simple, June, Effort

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• I was an altar boy and a choir member.

  Cheech Marin

  Boys, Choir, Altars

  "'The Perfect Game,' The Perfect Movie". Interview with Mark Armstrong, catholicexchange.com. April 16, 2010.

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• Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Blessed, Grace, Needs

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• An additional concern of leadership is the caution that some members of the nation's stem- cell research community have raised about state investments in this new area of scientific research.

  Joe Donnelly

  Cells, Community, Research

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• Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Grief, Mourning, Stakes

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• Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons inspection. However, if members could be accompanied by weapons inspection experts, that could be a step in the right direction.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Skills, Iraq, America

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• Without Russia's contribution, prices would rise even more. Some members of the EU meet 90% of their demands for gas with the help of Russian hydrocarbons and have no complaints so far. Everybody is happy. Russia is a reliable partner and has never failed her partners in Europe, even in the hardest times of its economic development.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Europe, Development

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• I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.

  Frans de Waal

  Support, Allies, Males

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• As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Doubt, Training, Benefits

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• Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Communication, Doors, Class

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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• We are delighted to be working with PCG to continue to develop professionalism in the IT industry, and making BCS membership more accessible to PCG's IT members enabling them to gain industry-recognised endorsement of their credentials. BCS membership supports career development at every stage, offering a wealth of IT industry information, and access to an unrivalled network of IT professionals to help secure that next job or contract.

  David A. Clarke, Jr

  Jobs, Careers, Offering

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• China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.

  Wen Jiabao

  Russia, Organization, Effort

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• The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.

  Juan Somavia

  Mean, Past, Slavery

  "Human trafficking on the rise". www.cnn.com. July 5, 2001.

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• Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

  Edward V. Long

  Naked, Goldfish, Privacy

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• The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.

  Leonard Sweet

  Leadership, Team, True Leader

  Leonard Sweet (2009). “Summoned to Lead”, p.68, Harper Collins

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• The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.

  Robert Genn

  Medicine, People, World

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