CLUB - An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A club is a group of people gathering under specific agreed conditions.
- In plain terms
- A club is people meeting under rules.
- What can you take from it?
- Groups need clear conditions to function.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes a group a club?
- How do rules affect membership?
Another view
It simplifies the complexity of social clubs.
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I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
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