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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. -- Bertrand Russell
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. -- Earl Nightingale
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough. -- Charles E. Wilson
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. -- John Wooden
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace. -- Ludwig Quidde
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. -- Winston Churchill
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. -- Mary Shelley
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental. -- Sasha Grey
The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection. -- Li Keqiang
Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development. -- Hu Jintao
In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. -- Florence Kelley
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. -- Elsa Schiaparelli
I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life. -- Helmut Jahn
The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be. -- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. -- Jacqueline Bisset
To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people. -- Jefferson Davis
When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference. -- Jack Canfield
Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century. -- John Hutton
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers. -- Cat Cora
War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. -- Alice Walker
When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy. -- John James Audubon
Character contributes to beauty. -- Jacqueline Bisset
Outer order contributes to inner calm. -- Gretchen Rubin
I think everything contributes to your creativity. -- Gary Gulman
People need to know how their job contributes. -- W. Edwards Deming
When one has talent, everything contributes to its development. -- Peter Kropotkin
Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith. -- Toba Beta
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. -- Shirley MacLaine
In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment. -- Mason Cooley
Everyone contributes something different to the mind, body and spirit. -- Donna Karan
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church. -- Dave Hickey
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language. -- Samuel Johnson
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything. -- Aristotle
This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms. -- Sidney Jourard
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. -- Jacqueline Bisset
Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness. -- Edwin Louis Cole
nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- Mary Shelley
A line is like a role model, It contributes in straightening our focus. -- DaVyshka
Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise. -- Squarepusher
Whatever healing work we each do contributes to the healing of us all. -- Sark
Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam. -- Mike Royko
All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill. -- Elsa Schiaparelli
Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue. -- Thomas Jefferson
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method. -- Lord Chesterfield
When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic. -- Francisco Costa
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills -- Albert Bandura
A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive. -- Frank Herbert
Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write. -- Jack Vance
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits. -- David Ricardo
Whatever contributes to the preservation of life is good; all that destroys life is evil. -- Gerhard Domagk
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. -- Tony Judt
Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating. -- Michael Pollan
Everyone here contributes to win the games, so there is no pressure on any one player. -- Bobby Abreu
I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that. -- Phil Donahue
Physical fitness contributes to all other aspects of personal development and makes for rich and radiant living -- Hugh B. Brown
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs. -- Albert Einstein
At the northern border of Azerbaijan, Daghestan by no means contributes to the democratization of the Caucasus. -- Garry Kasparov
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. -- Thomas Jefferson
Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53) -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle. -- Paul Watson
When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society. -- Anthony Biglan
Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings. -- M.J. Rose
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. -- John Berger
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life. -- Richard Branson
Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance. -- Beth Brooke
A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community. -- W. Somerset Maugham
There is no "I" in "Team," but there is an "E" for "Everyone." A team achieves more when everyone contributes. -- Robert Cheeke
Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other. -- Kim John Payne
You don't begin by dehumanizing those who are dehumanizing you, because it contributes to the cycle of dehumanization in the world. -- Cornel West
All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well. -- Andrew Mitchell
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view. -- C. F. Powell
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... -- John Berger
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view. -- C. F. Powell
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil. -- Michael Pollan
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is -- Nancy Kress
I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life ... -- Sam Maloof
Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue. -- Bertrand Russell
A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Whenever a woman strengthens the faith of a child, she contributes to the strength of a family - now and in the future. -- Carole M. Stephens
If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions -- David Luiz
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it -- Tony Blair
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. -- Mary Shelley
The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress. -- Henry Latham Doherty
Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer. -- Eckhart Tolle
Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life. -- Albert Einstein
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity. -- John Evelyn
Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system. -- Sue Kelly
What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation -- Ed Mayo
Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all. -- Paulo Coelho
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance. -- Michel de Montaigne
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life. -- Milton S. Hershey
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury. -- George Eliot
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences. -- Norman Doidge
Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion. -- Zac Goldsmith
The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less. -- David Brooks
Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise. -- Adolf Hitler
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly. -- Alain de Botton
Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable. -- Gene Wolfe
Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human. -- Vera John-Steiner
The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly. -- Derek Bok
I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in. -- Anita Roddick
The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July. -- Henry David Thoreau
The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another. -- Michael Mandelbaum
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind. -- Samuel Richardson

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