#members

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity. ↗

— Peter Singer

#back #concerned #could #essentially #find

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. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#association #audience #big #big enough #call

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. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#band #band members #being #camera #does

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests. ↗

— Andy Stern

#members #party #political #political party #should

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#based #because #call #constitution #coordinate

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#civil rights #concerned #generation #i #like

There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#christ #church #destroy #here #influence

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#brethren #came #come #desire #did

Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there. ↗

— Jo Bonner

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