Members Quotes - Page 5

• Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.

  Diana Trilling

  Class, One Day, May

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.

  James Payn

  Two, Important, Body

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Law, Doe

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.78, SCM Press

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• Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.

  Paul Hawken

  Responsibility, Cost, Venture

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• I'm now a member of a pretty small club.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Clubs

  "Skydiver jumps from 13 miles above Earth in test run for record attempt". www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

  George Brett

  Games, Support, Special

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• Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Parent, Society, Kind

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.

  Thomas Beecham

  Years, Age, Population

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• If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?

  Beatrice Webb

  Fear, Class, People

  In Bertrand Russell 'Autobiography' (1967) vol. 1, ch. 4

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• When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

  Everett Dirksen

  Moving, House, Body

  "Farrell: Channeling Everett Dirksen" by Vince Farrell, www.cnbc.com. August 6, 2009.

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• Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.

  Leland Stanford

  Individual, Enjoy, Inseparable

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and experience. What is satisfying for one person may be just the opposite for someone else. Being out in nature, by the seashore, or on a mountaintop works for me. Communing with nature brings me into soul time. But for others, being out in nature is something to be tolerated, or even an ordeal, or just what you do if you're a member of a family that goes camping.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Nature, Opposites, Soul

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• Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these problems can only be depicted. But photographs, private ones and others, keep appearing that fascinate me so much that I want to paint them. And sometimes the real meaning these images have for me only becomes apparent later.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Want

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• I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice.

  Marilyn Frye

  Morning, Heterosexuality Is, Class

  Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

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• When I say "dogs", I'm talking about dogs, which are large, bounding, salivating animals, usually with bad breath. I am not talking about those little squeaky things you can hold on your lap and carry around. Zoologically speaking, these are not dogs at all; they are members of the pillow family.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

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• A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, Names

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• I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue)

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.86, Da Capo Press

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• A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.

  Laurence Olivier

  Sports, Sex, Believe

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• Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer assistance and look after the welfare of inmates. A word spoken with love and concern will give them more comfort than any amount of money. That will lead to the expansion of our hearts as well.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Home, Heart

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• After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Food, Mutual Love, Helping

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• The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all that is finest down deep inside of them, and bringing to flower and fruitage the latent richness of the Spirit, which, after all, is the mission and purpose and reason for being of this Church.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Real, Flower, Character

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• [G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Community, Political, Church

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• By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute to churches to which they do not belong and of their own members who do not welcome being forced to contribute through government taxation.

  John M Swomley

  Government, Church, Taxation

  John M. Swomley, Americans for Religious Liberty (1997). “Confronting church and state: memoirs of an activist”

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• Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility.

  John M Swomley

  Responsibility, Church, Stronger

  John M. Swomley (1987). “Religious liberty and the secular state: the constitutional context”

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• I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.

  John Perry Barlow

  Running, Two, Race

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