Contribution Quotes - Page 36

• We get several requests for contributions each year from organizations in Twin Falls. We don't have enough money in the general fund to help everyone, so we use fundraisers like this to generate money.

  Rick Cook

  Fall, Years, Organization

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• To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

  John Lubbock

  Happiness

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

  Jim Davis

  Comedy, Understatement

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• Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.

  Andrew Davies

  Fun, America, People

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• As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Order, Long

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• I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.

  Robert Altman

  Actors, Want, Accepted

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• I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.

  Ted Turner

  Children, Years, Ideas

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• A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Government, Law

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• I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the voice that brought her out of the shower!"

  Oleta Adams

  Voice, March, Never Forget

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• We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.

  Dave Eggers

  Simple, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 1, 2010.

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• A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the best films there is some kind of contribution from one person all the way through that. The best films are made by people who write, direct, and edit, so there's continuity.

  Simon Pegg

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. October 2, 2008.

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• The role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy for the operations of our democracy. But the antidote, as in past eras of lobbyist excess, is for more involvement by citizens to build pressure on members of the House and Senate to serve the public interest.

  Al Gore

  Past, House, Political

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I have always admired organizations that help children grow and learn, and organizations that protect and shelter children when no one else does. And I wanted to draw attention to these organizations and recognize the contributions they were making to the country and to our children in particular.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Children, Organization

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.

  Sean Penn

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things 'cause they're fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Fun, Two, World

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• It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social committments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical.

  Alan Watts

  Weed, Taken, Numbers

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• You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.

  Learned Hand

  Voice, Doubt, Mind

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• So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

  Stephen Hawking

  Book, Law, Two

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy”, p.397, Running Press

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• This January, Kevin Costner will be honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival for his contribution to film. This gives Costner just two months to make a contribution to film.

  Tina Fey

  Spring, Two, Giving

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• I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

  Henry Morgentaler

  Children, Humanity, Attention

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• The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia.

  Philip Khuri Hitti

  Real, Interesting, Arabia

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• The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, Humble, Opportunity

  Nelson Mandela (1990). “Nelson Mandela, symbol of resistance and hope for a free South Africa: selected speeches since his release”

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• I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Believe, Teaching, Ideas

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.293, Princeton University Press

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• Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.

  Richard Dawkins

  Brain, Natural, Criteria

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene”, p.167, Oxford University Press

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• The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.

  Che Guevara

  Mistake, Elements, Enthusiasm

  "Socialism and Man in Cuba". www.marxists.org. March 12, 1965.

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