Contribution Quotes - Page 6

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Walter Gropius

Immortality, Claims, Has Beens

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Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

Nelson Mandela

Peace, Agreement, Development

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.251, Pan Macmillan

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Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

Martin Fleischmann

Tree, Facts, Scientist

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Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Usual, World, Subjects

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I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

Richard Codey

People, Political, Want

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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

Donald Knuth

People, Patents, Use

"The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching". Book by Donald E. Knuth, 1973.

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For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

Nathan Deal

Nursing, Opportunity, Years

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If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

Buck Owens

Country, Want, Fame

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But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

John McCain

Believe, Expression, Long

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There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

Michael McCaul

Stars, Sacrifice, Reality

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In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

Mark Shields

Giving, Presidential, Example

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Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Jim Costa

Struggle, Rights, Legacy

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From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

Bill Frist

Character, Blood, Justice

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One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

Pierre Salinger

Brother, People, Needs

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Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

Camille Paglia

Art, America, Mind

Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.11, Vintage

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Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

Alan Cohen

Helping Others, Destiny, People

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That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the quality of experience is a fact most easily recognized in dealing with the immature.

John Dewey

Lying, Immature, Quality

John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people

Camryn Manheim

Views, Practice, People

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I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.

Kevin Rudd

Voice, Australia, Issues

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

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By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.

T. Harv Eker

Motivational, Money, Fear

FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jan 28, 2014

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Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thinking, Class, Special

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3225, e-artnow

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It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

John C. Portman, Jr.

Men, Accomplishment, Rewards

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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

Gary Hamel

Commitment, Justice, Joy

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Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders serve an important purpose, the real contest involves players on the field or on the court of life. We must not go through life acting only as enthusiastic cheerleaders available for hire; we must be anxiously and personally engaged.

Neal A. Maxwell

Real, Player, Important

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You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

Brad Paisley

People, Looks, Changed

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

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