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• World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Race, Understanding, Brotherhood

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• A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

  Wendell Berry

  Faith, Teacher, Grandchildren

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.54, Counterpoint

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• Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Consciousness, Perceive

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• The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It's all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moving, Men, Race

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• We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Real, Breathing, Community

  "What Oprah Knows For Sure About Finding Your Calling" By Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.

  Elvin Jones

  Musical, Ensemble, Arms

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• The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.

  Carl Sagan

  Teacher, Inspire, Mind

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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• Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.

  Peter Drucker

  Vocabulary, Careers, Achievement

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• The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Math, Humanity

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.159, Penguin

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• Work hard with passion and courage. Life is a marathon of contribution. You really must work hard to accomplish something... Find your passion and get good at it.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Hard Work, Passion, Marathon

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• A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Exercise, People

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• Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

  Jack Kornfield

  Unique, World, Individual

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.139, Shambhala Publications

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• The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Unique, World

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will. But the indispensible contribution of marriage to society transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple.

  Pope Francis

  Couple, Emotional, Feelings

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.24, BookBaby

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• When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It changes the way people think about the possibility of things changing. It helps them see that life is not the same day-after day, unsurprising, unending drudgery that so much of life teaches them that it is. And that is a huge contribution to their humanity.

  Dan Pallotta

  Thinking, People, Humanity

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• Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.

  Matthew Parris

  Christian, Spiritual, Atheist

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• I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.

  Charles Bass

  Technology, Issues, Policy Making

  "Charlie Bass' political comeback". www.politico.com. September 30, 2009.

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• The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.

  Maynard Webb

  Technology, Ideas, Want

  "Adjusting Our Work-Life Balance in the Internet Economy" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2010.

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• ...there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Teamwork, Perseverance, Encouragement

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• In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.

  R. Keith Sawyer

  Team, Successful, Play

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• Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.214, Broadview Press

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• It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable, are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence rather than their occurrence which becomes highly improbable.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Light, Evolution

  "Evolution as a Process". Book edited by J. S. Huxley, A. C. Hardy and E. B. Ford, 1954.

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• Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.

  Archibald Garrod

  Science, Hands, Imagination

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• Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, Income, Taxation

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.271, Best Books on

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• Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers and political contributions to ensure their bottom line stays unchanged by the most basic safety precaution.

  Robert Greenwald

  Brother, Safety, People

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