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Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. -- Muhammad Yunus
I'm encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. -- Muhammad Yunus
I'm encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun." -- Muhammad Yunus
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. -- Dave Barry
You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others. -- Walter Annenberg
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything. -- Captain Beefheart
It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen. -- Jessye Norman
I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens. -- Cesar Pelli
I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world. -- Marianne Williamson
I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was. -- Hedy Lamarr
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity. -- Charlie Gonzalez
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world. -- Deepak Chopra
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind. -- Eisaku Sato
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again. -- Alanis Morissette
I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way. -- Dave Edmunds
When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union. -- Sonny Perdue
I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case. -- Chance The Rapper
Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand. -- Amy Jo Martin
I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me. -- Steven Van Zandt
We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life. -- Alice Waters
Already we're seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans. -- David Malpass
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world. -- Adam Braun
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that. -- Larry Page
I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly to society. I think a lot of that is unintentional; I don't think that many managers are deliberately trying to be unethical or are not trying to be sensitive to social needs. -- Michael Porter
It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world. -- Simon Mainwaring
I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck. -- Katee Sackhoff
If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending. -- Robert Higgs
I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope. -- Simon Hoggart
Collect value by contributing value. -- Zero Dean
Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing. -- Austin Kleon
The happiest people are those who are contributing to society. -- Ted Turner
I'm just enjoying the ride. I'm just contributing what I can. -- Randy Moss
European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat. -- Saladin
I am committed to contributing to the educational growth of our youth. -- S. Lemon
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We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change. -- Tony Abbott
I never think about my own stats, as long as I'm contributing to the team. -- Derek Jeter
India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there. -- Joschka Fischer
Stop worrying about approval and appreciation. Enjoy the beauty and effect of contributing to the universe. -- Debasish Mridha
I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing. -- Lisa Marie Presley
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life. -- Grenville Kleiser
China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,. -- Li Zhaoxing
What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world? -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful. -- Margaret Thatcher
Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do. -- Seth Godin
I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore. -- Feist
The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face. -- Dan Savage
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything. -- Captain Beefheart
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations. -- Alan Bradley
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations." -- Alan Bradley
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable. -- Jean de la Bruyere
When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult. -- Alex Ebert
If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world. -- Deepak Chopra
When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion. -- Tom Cruise
You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world. -- Tom Ford
I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. -- Bill Gates
It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is. -- Bobby Jindal
Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race. -- Buzz Aldrin
To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy. -- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer. -- Jack Welch
As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project. -- Kim Fields
New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand. -- Helen Clark
Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy. -- John L. Lewis
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations -- J. William Fulbright
Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy. -- William Safire
Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy. -- Noam Chomsky
I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous. -- Logan Lerman
There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge. -- Fabiola Gianotti
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. -- Lois Lowry
The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States. -- David O. McKay
Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul. -- David O. McKay
Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms. -- Mike Jackson
We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget. -- Cliff Stearns
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship. -- Alistair Cooke
Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga. -- George Lucas
Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me. -- Rickey Henderson
The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain. -- Thomas Kinkade
Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor. -- Deborah Prothrow-Stith
In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress. -- Tom Gross
But often times, I feel like I'm so blessed, it's not fair. That what I'm doing is not contributing to the good of the world. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him. -- Thomas Jefferson
My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling. -- Carre Otis
Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something. -- Steven Hatfill
People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it"?otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society. -- Greg Graffin
I work consistently hard and smart because I understand that I can only flourish by contributing positively to the universe through my daily decisions and actions. -- Edmond Mbiaka
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain. -- Linda McCartney
Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community. -- Charles Koch
The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress. -- Fiorello H. La Guardia
I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia. -- Stella Young
If you're using sex to sell sneakers, then you're not just selling sneakers, you're selling sex as well, and you're contributing to the sexual temperature of society. -- Alan Moore
No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. -- Gustav Stresemann
For the team to be successful, we've got to set team goals. I go out every game and make sure that I'm contributing, whether that's defensively or offensively. -- Phil Hill
For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start. -- George Stevens
Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more spent on unemployment insurance. -- Nina Easton
I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things. -- Jonathan Shapiro
Start early "? the sooner you start, the more you will have in your account when you retire. I actually waited until 30 before contributing"¦that was a big mistake. -- Greg Meyer
I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full benefits for Americans who have spent their entire working lives contributing to this program. -- Sue Kelly
By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone. -- Sharon Gannon
For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end. -- Tony Levin
My father has created an enormous business and he's created an enormous brand for himself, and I'm contributing to the business that he's built every day at The Trump Organization -- Ivanka Trump
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page. -- Ted Koppel
The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself. -- James L. Buckley
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page -- Ted Koppel
If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world. -- Deepak Chopra
I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition. -- Eve Ensler
It is great to be a part of big-budget movies, but it is harder to feel like you are contributing, in the sense that it has such big machinery behind it. -- Naomie Harris
There is not a person alive who is not capable of greatly contributing to the well - being of this planet. Just changing your attitude can affect the world around you. -- Susan Jeffers
Somebody once observed--and the observation did him credit, whoever he was--that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping. -- Albert Richard Smith
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals. -- Philip Kapleau
The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition. -- Ban Ki-moon
From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life. -- Wayne Allard
A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise. -- Mark Levin

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