Contributors Quotes - Page 4

• It is rare and very inspiring that a head of state would make such an investment of time to write a book like this. It is a fine gift to the judokas of the world as well as to those of Russia...Vladimir Putin Sensei and his co-writers have established themselves as gifted writers and contributors to the judo world.

  Keiko Fukuda

  Book, Writing, Gifted Writers

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• religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

  PZ Myers

  Disease, Causes, Misery

  PZ Myers (2013). “The Happy Atheist”, p.88, Vintage

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• Well, there's a bright side to this for Ken Lay. You know, throughout the years Ken Lay has been a big campaign contributor to the Republican Party. So now, he'll be able to meet with those same people when he goes to prison.

  Jay Leno

  Party, Years, People

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• We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Strong, America, Ukraine

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• Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

  Paul Watson

  Growth, Immigration, Population

  "For Environmentalists, a Growing Split Over Immigration". Interview with Brad Knickerbocker, www.csmonitor.com. May 12, 2006.

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• In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the
  law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Law, Two, Feet

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter XIV, 1835.

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• The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.

  Craig L. Thomas

  Iraq, People, Effort

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• Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Elderly, People

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

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• The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?

  William Greider

  Government, Political, Dollars

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big-money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the air was thick today with accusations from people who believe that's exactly what happened.

  Dan Rather

  Believe, Air, People

  "Clamoring for Kyoto" by Rich Noyes, www.newsbusters.org. May 24, 2012.

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• I am honored that they would include me in the Cabinet as a member and contributor.

  Darius Rucker

  Cabinets, Members, Honored

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• Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science by the public. People are not stupid and they know very well when they have seen something out of the ordinary. When a so-called expert tells them the object must have been the moon or a mirage, he is really teaching the public that science is impotent or unwilling to pursue the study of the unknown.

  Jacques Vallee

  Stupid, Teaching, Moon

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• Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Jobs, Opportunity, Creating

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• From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account of its natural history as should give me a niche amongst the scientific explorers of the globe I inhabit, and hand my name down as a useful contributor of original matter.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Country, Writing, Science

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• The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

  Robert Menzies

  Leadership, Effort, Democracy

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• Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Keys, Obesity, Contradictory

  "National Security Depends on the Nation’s Food Security" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2013.

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• Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

  Joan Jett

  Meat Industry, Car, Environmental

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• While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

  Al Gore

  Real, Coward, President

  "Gore blasts Bush on environment". www.cnn.com. January 15, 2004.

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• The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

  Michael Franti

  Climate, World, Climate Change

  "Time for Passion and Strategy on Climate Change" by Michael Franti, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

  Jeff Bezos

  Passion, Engineering, Years

  "Amazon's Jeff Bezos Discovers Historic Apollo 11 Rocket Engines at the Bottom of the Sea". www.theatlantic.com. March 28, 2012.

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• When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.

  Jimmy Carter

  Army, Caring, Doors

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.

  Gary Bauer

  Keys, Rights, Support

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• Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us with yet more that will likely be unfamiliar to most readers. But the real treat of the essays is how they will make Artificial Life researchers squirm as they recognize their own intellectual sleights of hand exposed for all to see. Those researchers and the Genesis Redux contributors are all ultimately interested in what it is that truly distinguishes us beings from other lumps of matter.

  Rodney Brooks

  Real, Philosophical, Hands

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• Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honor, Debt, Benefits

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography”, p.468

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• Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

  Benjamin Zander

  Stories, Done, Life Is

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.51, Penguin

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