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“We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.”

Want Government Faith Culture Members Deny Convinced Billions Islamic Freedom Of Religion Islamic Faith

Author:Theodore C. Sorensen

“I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.”

Writing Members Court Supreme Vulnerability Personal Life Supreme Court Candor

Book:My Beloved World

Source: My Beloved World

“Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.”

Way Stories Film Technology Audience Members Concepts Concerned Remains Noise Bells Popular Film

Author:Steven Spielberg

“My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.”

Ifs Want Challenges Church Members Episcopalians

Author:John Shelby Spong

“The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.”

People World Trying Enough Bigs Found Church Audience Members Association Alumni

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.”

Writing Doe I Can Song Rooms Audience Band Members Cameras Rely Songwriters Band Members

Author:Rick Springfield

“I love being a member of KISS.”

Kissing Members

Author:Paul Stanley

“Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.”

Knows Believe Would Be Imagine Members Unhappy Mysterious Family Members Unhappy Family

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.”

Bigs Voice College Involved Members Radio Various Stations Radio Stations

Author:Angie Stone

“Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.”

School Father Honor Members

Author:Barbra Streisand

“Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective.”

Giving Greater Cutting Perspective Comfort Limits Members Messages Financial Congress Debt Passing Passings Expenses Household Payment

Author:John Sununu

“If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.”

Ifs Believe Care Values Members Vulnerable Value Of Life

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.”

Deals Members Majors Bigger Bills Congress Minorities Amendments Minors Adjustment Legislators Lawmakers

Book:Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire

Source: Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire

“I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.”

Hours Members Responsible Staff Seventeen Embassy Staff Members

Author:Shirley Temple

“I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.”

People Way Giving Ends Bigs Community Brain Technology Effects Communication Members Models Population Compare Organized Collectives Ants Exploding Communication Technology

Author:Lewis Thomas

“I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.”

People Mean Has Beens Community Church White Cases Members South Sunday Respectable Squad Church On Sunday

Author:Desmond Tutu

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

“I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act - people who want to run the river or climb the mountain - even if they're not members of my political party.”

People Ifs Want Looks Mean Running Action Political Speak Party Mountain Members Rivers Congress Woods Titles I've Learned Climbs Political Parties

Author:Mark Udall

“The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.”

Reality Members Institutions International Unesco Bihar

Book:Towards a new world: defining moments

Source: Towards a new world: defining moments

“There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.”

States Would Be Members Stronger Conviction Constituents Implicit Unesco Bihar

Book:Towards a new world: defining moments

Source: Towards a new world: defining moments

“Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.”

Humans Human Beings Race Virtue Members Faults

Author:Ethel Waters

“Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.”

Soul Stories Spirit Band Members Grain Complaints Cuban Spirit And Soul Band Members

Author:Wim Wenders

“I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party.”

Believe I Believe Party Members Democrat Progressive Communist Communist Party Caucus

Author:Allen West

“All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.”

Members Institutions Vices Corruption

Author:Morris West

“It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.”

Men Inspirational Comedy Planets Easier Members Clubs Loyalty Loyal Bylaws

Author:E. B. White

“Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.”

People Should Individual Church Effort Members Workers Lifts Ministers Impress Individual Effort

Book:Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV

Source: Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV

“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.”

May Together Individual Work Dark Audience Genius Thousand Members Critical Imbeciles

Author:Billy Wilder

“The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.”

Children Done School Political Views Party Teacher Serious Members Unions Democratic Block Brands Reform Champion Damage Democratic Party Clout Teachers Unions

Author:Juan Williams

“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.”

Individual Sin Results Virtue Groups Members Selfishness Altruism Versus Selection

Author:E. O. Wilson

“When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.”

Men Mind Feelings Religion Strong Understanding Pleasure Cases Duty Drink Members Regard Casts Neglect Disorder Appetite Indulge Civil Society Strong Drink

Book:journal

Source: journal

“As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.”

World Use Internet Members Innovation Congress Customers Around The World Posts Online Small Business Constituents Oregon

Author:Ron Wyden

“If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.”

Ifs World Helping Industry Members Lows Organization Trade Environmental International China Goods World Trade International Trade Solar Panels World Trade Organization

Author:Ron Wyden

“Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.”

Mean Given Process Decision Poor Millions Members Unique Shadow Institutions Males Decision Making Borrowers Decision Making Process

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.”

Years Has Beens Made War Fighting Millions Team Fronts Quiet Members Losing Organization Scientist Productions Humble Officials Farmers Food Production Green Revolution

Author:Norman Borlaug

“One of my favorite activities as a priesthood leader is visiting members of the Church in their homes. I especially enjoy calling upon and talking with members who commonly are described as 'less active.'”

Home Enjoy Church Talking Leader Calling Activity Members My Favorite Active Visiting Priesthood

Author:David A. Bednar

“A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.”

Ifs Shows Quality Travel Members Highest Photograph Reviews Worn Funny Travel Summit Gears Expeditions

Book:The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

Source: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

“Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More start-ups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.”

Ifs Mind Causes Alive Members Flow Bars Cash Staff Parasites Overhead Employing Cash Flow Mutiny

Author:Felix Dennis

“I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.”

Wells Support Gay Members Gay Marriage Family Members Close Friends Close Family Support Gay Marriage

Author:Tony Abbott

“Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.”

Should Country Matter Political Politics President Citizens Members Vote Weight Election Congress Voting Ceo Elections And Voting Inspirational Voting Voting Day

Author:Barbara Boxer

“As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families.”

Needs Jobs Force Air Mines Members Bases Army Active Officers Warfare Air Force Personnel Caucus Enlisted

Author:Allen Boyd

“Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.”

World War Groups Members Thirds Meetings Committed Active Violent France War Of The Worlds Republic Founders Supporter Fascists Second World War Cosmetics Headquarters

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.”

Source: The Contortionist's Handbook

“It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.”

Humanity Religious Birth Prove Members Embrace Privilege Nationality

Book:Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing - Illustrated

Source: Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing - Illustrated

“I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.”

Persons Funny Members Humorous Witty Clubs Like Me Cynicism Altruism

Author:Woody Allen

“Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.”

World Made Ideas Age Young Spirit Loses Party Members Democratic New Ideas Democratic Party Be Young Zest

Author:John F. Kennedy

“He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.”

Men Heart Said Feelings Animal Members Capable Hatred Instinct Endure Envy Stealing Kingdoms Selfishness Sole Tribes Malice Drunkenness Filthy Animal Kingdom Vindictiveness Bad Heart

Author:Mark Twain

“Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.”

Writing Race Stupid Members Victim Injustice Ironic Pretentious Hypocritical Ironic Things

Author:Franklin P. Adams

“I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.”

Way Doe Real Liberty Tomorrow Members Infinite One Way Variety Contradiction

Author:Man Ray

“If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.”

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”

I Can Secret Liberty Class Information Members Command Dumb Useless League Captains Superhero Hobbes Napalm Useless Information Wormwood Lewis And Clark

Author:Bill Watterson

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