Contribution Quotes - Page 35

• I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that I'm acting out of place, bringing too much attention to myself - but for the funeral of our leader John Garang, they had me write the poem "Chol Apieth" to eulogize him, and that was their way of acknowledging my contributions.

  Kola Boof

  Writing, Army, Men

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• "Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at the risk of oversimplification, systematic theology tends to organize theology topically and with an eye cast on its contemporary relevance, while biblical theology tends to organize the same biblical material so that it is easier to see the distinctive contribution of each biblical book and human author, and to trace the trajectories of themes across the Bible so we see how the books of the Bible hold together.

  D. A. Carson

  Book, Eye, Biblical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It's better to emphasize biblical theology, partly because there are fine Study Bibles already available that lean into systematic theology, and partly because biblical theology is particularly strong at helping readers see how the Bible hangs together in its own categories: that is, God in his infinite wisdom chose to give us his Word in the 66 canonical books, with all of their variations in theme, emphasis, vocabulary, literary form, and distinctive contributions across time.

  D. A. Carson

  Strong, Book, Biblical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I'm very fatalistic about life. Whatever happens, happens. The imperative for me is that I do my contribution for my people, for my culture. I still want to make films for them. I still want to make films that confront our struggles.

  Lav Diaz

  Struggle, People, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.

  Chris Christie

  Agency, Goal, Support

  "Fact-checking the Republican debate". www.chicagotribune.com. January 15, 2016.

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• We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.

  Bernie Sanders

  Two, Campaigns, Half

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Let's as this House send a very clear message to British Muslims that we value you, we value your contribution, and we will take this petition very seriously.

  Sarah Wollaston

  House, Messages, British

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

  Dave Grohl

  Black, Band, Debt

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Someone asked me very recently why I have 8 million views on TED - "your work resonates, what are you doing?" What I think my contribution is, what I do well, is I name experiences that are very universal that no one really talks about. That's the researcher in me; that's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have. That's the researcher part.

  Brené Brown

  Thinking, Views, Names

  "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

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• My wife spent a lot of time on what we do from a civic contribution giving perspective, for a number of years, I've really joined her in that. We're focused on issues in the United States, particularly issues with people who have been trapped in neighborhoods in what I might call intergenerational poverty.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Numbers, Issues

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."

  Steve Ballmer

  Workout, Crazy, Sleep

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.

  William Mapother

  Responsibility, Actors, Too Much

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The reality is we that have a corrupt campaign finance system which separates the American people's needs and desires from what Congress is doing. So to my mind, what we have got to do is wage a political revolution where millions of people have given up on the political process, stand up and fight back, demand the government that represents us and not just a handful of campaign contribution - contributors.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Reality, Government

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• Let's talk about why, in the 1990s, Wall Street got deregulated. Did it have anything to do with the fact that Wall Street provided - spent billions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions? Well, some people might think, yeah, that had some influence.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Thinking, People

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• Even if I'm not so into the specific celebrities who are sharing images of themselves looking "bad," I think it's an amazing contribution to the conversations about beauty that we have online.

  Petra Collins

  Thinking, Online, Conversation

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point.

  Bernie Sanders

  Democracy, Four, Proud

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but also computer scientists and linguists, it is noteworthy that one can't always tell just from the content of particular contributions from the audience, whether a given questioner is a philosopher or an empirical scientist.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Psychology

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly nothing but science. Perhaps another way to put this is that, although I think that knowledge is a natural kind, I don't think that philosophy is.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think for gay people to see gay people living honestly about everything they do is really a contribution.

  Christopher Rice

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.

  L.A. Paul

  Philosophical, Different, Philosopher

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that the sciences don't, such as the intrinsic nature of causation or the dynamic character of temporal experience.

  L.A. Paul

  Character, Reality, Understanding

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

  Philip Kitcher

  Art, Believe, Understanding

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.

  Charles R. Morris

  Technology, America, Daddy

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card.

  Suze Orman

  Cards, Credit, Pay

  "Debt vs. debt: Which loans do I pay off first?". "Today" Interview, www.today.com. May 6, 2009.

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• Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.

  Jimenez Lai

  Hero, Cities, Impressive

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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