What I care about passionately is that we not lie to ourselves.  We can present any image we want to the public but if we don't lie to ourselves about what we are, the rest will straighten itself out.

--Sander Rubin

If we try to solve the world's problems before we solve our own, we'll wind up with egg on our faces.

--Sander Rubin

If we can solve a problem for ourselves the solution to which has application elsewhere, then it will have implications for the larger society.  But trying to have implications for the larger society will not get us though any problem that we have.

--Meredy Amyx

Mensa will ultimately be a great organization if it distinguishes itself from the rest of the world in a way that people need.  It will have its own ecological niche in the world because it's doing something that nobody else in the world is, and it won't require any justification.

--Sander Rubin

Maybe the local group should be setting the example for the AMC.

--Cynthia Dutra

Mensa should not look elsewhere for what its personality should be.

--Sander Rubin

Maybe what we really want to do is to live up to what's in the brochure.

--Cynthia Dutra

If we are not daring, then we become cautious.  If we become cautious, then we become what we are now.

--Meredy Amyx

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