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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• When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors…because so many men have built their 'ministries' on the dry dead bones of
  unconverted church members.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Past, Men

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• I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Years

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• My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings: members of species other than our own - or, as we popularly though misleadingly call them, animals. In other words, I am urging that we extend to other species the basic principle of equality that most of us recognize should be extended to all members of our own species.

  Peter Singer

  Attitude, Animal, Practice

  Helga Kuhse, Udo Schüklenk, Peter Singer (2015). “Bioethics: An Anthology”, p.530, John Wiley & Sons

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• Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

  Bobby Jindal

  Law, Congress

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• I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.

  John Jay Hooker

  Mistake, Believe, Agreement

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• QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

  Ambrose Bierce

  White, Numbers, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2007). “Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Heyday Books

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• When one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds.

  Stacy Allison

  Inspirational, Team, Succeed

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• It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If only they [people] could all see themselves as they really are I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusions, a point of pure truth This little point is the pure glory of God in us. It is in everybody.

  Thomas Merton

  Fall, Destiny, Race

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• I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Issues, Done

  "In debt deal, the triumph of the old Washington" by David A. Fahrenthold, Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane, www.washingtonpost.com. August 3, 2011.

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• For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?

  Sam Childers

  Family, Sister, Brother

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• For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.

  Kendrick Meek

  People, Pay, Sides

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• We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Morning, Night

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.90, Bantam

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