Quotes About Membership

And here, though it makes an odd sound, yet it is necessary to say, that whoever professes himself a member of the Church of England, ought to believe a God and his providence, together with revealed religion, and the divinity of Christ. For

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

genetic genealogy companies will sell you kits that claim to grant you membership to historical peoples, albeit ill-defined, highly romanticized versions of ancient Europeans. This type of genetic astrology, though unscientific and distasteful to my palate, is really just a bit of meaningless fantasy; its real damage is that it undermines scientific literacy in the general public.

2No one whose testes are crushed or whose member is cut off shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord. 3No one misbegotten* shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord; none of his descendants, even in the tenth generation, shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord.

Het is de taak van de propaganda, om aanhangers te werven; de taak van de organisatie is, om leden te maken. Hij, die verklaart, het eens te zijn met de idealen van de beweging, is aanhanger; hij die voor de beweging strijdt, is lid. De sympathie van de aanhanger wordt gewonnen door de propaganda. Het lid wordt er door de organisatie toe gebracht, om zelf mee te werken, teneinde nieuwe aanhangers te winnen, waaruit dan weer nieuwe leden kunnen groeien.

Costco is a passion. Costco is like a massage.

The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.

To the credit of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, people have been expelled or marginalized. Pat Buchanan in the '90s. Ron Paul, Rand Paul in the first decade of this century. Bill Buckley famously expelled the Birchers in 1964. It's been a movement that's tried to maintain its boundaries.

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

I thank all of those deputies who supported the government and gave it a vote of confidence. I believe each of those votes represents a responsible decision to avoid placing our country's membership of the eurozone in danger.

The interesting thing about membership is that it's, by its nature, a very emotional transaction. It's a tie to an artist. It feels like voting with your dollars: I'm voting with my spending, voting for the creator.

Why should someone be allowed to remain a voting member of the Academy if they are no longer active in the industry?

There are simply too many Academy members who were voted in during a less inclusive era and still remain a large voting bloc even though they haven't worked in the field for decades.

The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

Because Scotland and Northern Ireland want to remain part of the E.U., there is the quite real possibility that Scotland and even Northern Ireland might now choose to go their own way on membership within the E.U. and the 'United Kingdom' would suddenly effectively be only England and Wales.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U.

In 1992, India launched the India-Asian partnership and by 2005 we were members of the East Asia Summit.

If you aren't any religion, how will you know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?

Crucially, Davies lived in Prestwich, which often seems to be the only qualification needed to join Britain's most parochial band.

that membership of a special club—whether it's a religion, a priesthood, an aristocracy or political movement—can drive people crazy to the point of believing themselves superior…" I turned to Pamela and added, "and with the right of life and death over entire races.

To have such boundaries means that the date, place, and membership of each finite game are externally defined.