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No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

Alistair Cooke

Sports, Facts, Myth

Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.14, Arcade Publishing

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Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Illinois, Rhode Island, Islands

"Good News in the Fight Against Bad Air" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market will somehow bring about the required adjustments to new conditions, although no one can foretell how they will do this in a particular instance. There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people

Friedrich August von Hayek

Attitude, Self, People

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When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

Bryan Brown

America, Able, This Society

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alan Bradley

Careers, Long, People

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The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.

Patrick Shade

Weather, Agency, Growth

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To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.

Edward Norton

Jobs, People, Consistency

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.

Thomas A. Edison

Country, Government, People

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I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.

Rickey Henderson

League, Special, Exciting

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Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can do nothing to make this globe a better place to live are both temptations of the most insidious form. One leads to arrogance; the other to despair.

Joan D. Chittister

Ideas, Two, Temptation

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A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.

Carol Browner

Animal, People, Environmental

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To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

Chuck Palahniuk

Culture, Ghost, Seems

"20 Q&As: Chuck Palahniuk". Interview with Stuart Hammond, www.dazeddigital.com. September 26, 2011.

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As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.

Richard Whately

Children, Book, Reading

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second edition”, p.500

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I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something more than the right to shave in private. I mean the right to join what I want to join, to do what I want to do, or not to do what I might do without giving anyone a reason, either in advance or afterwards. That does not mean that I am seeking for irresponsibility socially.

Chester Barnard

Mean, Thinking, Rights

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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

Henry Fielding

Art, Attitude, Dresses

Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1816). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.

Aristotle

Sight, Names, Soul

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1733, Princeton University Press

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But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

Dabney Coleman

Character, Weekend, Guy

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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

J. William Fulbright

Educational, Communication, People

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In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

Michael Ignatieff

Fun, War, Party

"Getting Iraq Wrong". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2007.

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I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

Dave Edmunds

Guitar, Way, Compliment

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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

A. B. Yehoshua

Dream, Stupid, Bridges

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Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?

Jason Mraz

Mean, Forever, Flying

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It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.

Richard Stallman

Real, Hands, Skills

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I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

Cesar Pelli

Cities, Design, Trying

César Pelli (1999). “Observations for young architects”, Monacelli Pr

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I try to make things that are not elitist. There's enough places in the world where we're excluded. I do not ever want to be contributing to that. I want to be contributing to opening the doors and gates for women.

Amanda de Cadenet

Doors, Trying, World

Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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