Contribution Quotes - Page 38

• Russia will always remember the contribution [of King Fahd] in the development of Russian-Saudi relations, which in recent years were raised to a qualitatively higher level.

  Vladimir Putin

  Kings, Russia, Years

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• I suppose that's a question most often asked of me by people who would like to make a positive contribution towards a sustainable future and a healthy environment. There are so many things that need to be done that sometimes it seems overwhelming. I try to remind everyone that no one person has to do it all but if each one of us follows our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do, and together we will come up with enough to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

  John Denver

  Heart, People, Healthy

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• Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Art, Unique, Culture

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• Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Discovery, Law, Doubt

  John Henry Wigmore (1923). “A Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the Statutes and Judicial Decisions of All Jurisdictions of the United States and Canada”

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• Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Dhoni, Decision, Tests

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• Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Greatness, Mutual

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• Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Games, Trying, Today

  Cal Ripken, Donald T. Phillips (2008). “Get in the Game: 8 Elements of Perseverance That Make the Difference”, p.136, Penguin

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• Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Patriotic, Eye, Dust

  Thorstein Veblen (2006). “An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace, and the Terms of Its Perpetuation”, p.40, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet, are (1) "failure to include a current address," and (2) "failure to be a large industry that gives humongous contributions to key tax-law-writing congresspersons."

  Dave Barry

  Mistake, Writing, Law

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

  Arthur Ashe

  Selfish, Accomplishment, Tennis

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• We've got to reach out to Muslim countries.We've got to have them be part of our coalition. If they hear people running for president who basically shortcut it to say we are somehow against Islam, that was one of the real contributions, despite all the other problems, that George W. Bush made after 9/11 when he basically said after going to a Mosque in Washington, we are not at war with Islam or Muslims.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Country, Real

  Source: time.com

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• I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to the other. And I worked for years in television as well. So, I like the interrelationship of it and having a good relationship with a group of artists creating something really where the sum is greater than all of our individual contributions, our parts.

  Howard Shore

  Drama, Artist, Night

  Source: collider.com

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• My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.

  George Burns

  Play, Ideas, Plot

  George Burns (1988). “Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Culture, Moral, Evolution

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

  William James

  Effort, World, Undervalued

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• Your contribution is the energy produced in the doing of something, not the end product.

  Penney Peirce

  Energy, Ends, Products

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• Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all.

  Pope John Paul II

  Principles, Raw Materials, Creation

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Educational, Names, Humanity

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• Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

  Kevin Kline

  Ambition, Significance

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• Funnily enough we have never had one enquiry for Paul Scholes. You know why? Because they all know he will never leave. in my time he would be in the top six or seven (best United players ever) without a doubt. His contribution and quality have been great, even without the fantastic goals he has scored. [ . . . ] He has that wonderful velvet touch on the ball. When he gets it, it goes stone dead. It is wonderful to see that amidst all the mayhem that can happen in a football match.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Player, Goal

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• To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.

  Sol Stern

  Children, African American, Needs

  Sol Stern (2003). “Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice”

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• You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.

  Vernon Johns

  Thinking, Hedging, Made

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• A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

  Peter Drucker

  Generations, Lifetime, Economy

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.34, Routledge

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• This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. The top one-hundredth of 1 percent makes more than 40 percent of all campaign contributions. The billionaire class owns the political system and reaps the benefits from it.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Political, Campaigns

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• A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

  Wendell Berry

  Teacher, Grandchildren, May

  "What Are People For?". Book by Wendell Berry, 1990.

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