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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions. -- Hans Selye
Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions. -- Dale T. Mortensen
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. -- Stephen Covey
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win. -- Sachin Tendulkar
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. -- Jeff Bingaman
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. -- Ken Robinson
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. -- Margaret Mead
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
A CBS spokesman said the network's policy was tightened in September 2006 to forbid contributions to political campaigns. Previously, there was a bit of wiggle room. -- Bill Dedman
I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation. -- Strom Thurmond
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. -- Ulysses S. Grant
The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions. -- James L. Buckley
After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street. -- Bernie Sanders
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
If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful. -- Matt Mullenweg
There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions. -- Stephen Hawking
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
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. -- Angela Davis
Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well. -- Aretha Franklin
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women. -- Lael Brainard
For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country. -- Spencer Bachus
I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad. -- Kenny Marchant
Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world. -- Xi Jinping
My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence. -- Daniel Hannan
I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. -- Lauryn Hill
Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness. -- Baltasar Gracian
Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions. -- Aaron Gillespie
I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding. -- Philip Kitcher
Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace. -- Carly Fiorina
Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public. -- Stephen Breyer
Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners. -- Simon Hoggart
Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement. -- M. Russell Ballard
Darren Levine has my unqualified support and gratitude for his contributions to Krav Maga. -- Imi Lichtenfeld
I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf. -- Liya Kebede
Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet. -- Harvey Pekar
The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage. -- Dick Cheney
We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history. -- Bernie Sanders
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present. -- Kofi Annan
All this money washing around Washington and all of these contributions taint all of us. -- John McCain
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. -- Edgar Winter
In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings. -- Thomas Kinkade
Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences. -- Jonathan Zittrain
... Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world... -- Barney Kessel
In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy. -- Max de Pree
All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law -- Theodore Roosevelt
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies. -- Jelly Roll Morton
Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress -- Wilferd Peterson
NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries -- Bill de Blasio
Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired. -- Winston Churchill
Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever. -- Paul Watson
We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities. -- Thomas Jefferson
One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour. -- Sunday Adelaja
Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate. -- Mitch McConnell
The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain. -- Benjamin Hooks
I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective. -- Marc Benioff
World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds -- Mary McLeod Bethune
The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity. -- Billy Graham
There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible. -- Charles H. Townes
The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions. -- Jiang Zemin
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. -- Henry Louis Gates
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. -- Harry S. Truman
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. -- Robert Reich
Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups. -- Steven Sinofsky
Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions. -- Gloria Reuben
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. -- Steven Weinberg
I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans. -- John F. Kerry
Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world. -- L.A. Reid
Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. -- Joe Baca
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. -- Paul Berg
Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from. -- Bernie Sanders
Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them. -- Michael Franks
men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior. -- Dale Spender
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this communitys many contributions and to celebrate its bright future. -- Nydia Velazquez
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. -- Henry Louis Gates
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this community's many contributions and to celebrate its bright future. -- Nydia Velazquez
Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have. -- Phil Keoghan
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property. -- Daniel Webster
An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now. -- Nicola Sturgeon
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
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
The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions. -- Carlo Rubbia
If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that -- William K. Black
The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development. -- Elliot W. Eisner
A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive. -- Thomas Jefferson
If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions. -- Paolo Soleri
It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics. -- Al Gore
I didn't do anything very pretty. My contributions were in the intangibles. But, they were the type of things that help lead a team.. -- Wes Unseld
Woe to the Revolution when the day comes, when the people, overburdened by contributions and consumed by abuses, turn to their enemies for salvation! -- Apolinario Mabini
All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science. -- Ernest Rutherford
Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us. -- Hillary Clinton
Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover. -- Thomas Foran
We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions. -- Bryant McGill
We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions." -- Bryant McGill
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Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization. -- Ellen Key
No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens. -- Michelle Obama
The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions. -- George Soros
Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa. -- Liya Kebede
Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart. -- Sam Walton
The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored. -- Ina May Gaskin
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind. -- Grace Lee Boggs
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition. -- Mohammed Arkoun
Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success. -- Harvey Mackay
I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation -- Strom Thurmond
Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done. -- Max Anders
How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product? -- Howard Berman
Women offer unique contributions to making and keeping peace - and that those contributions lead to better outcomes not just for women, but for entire societies. -- Hillary Clinton
Greatness is defined by public recognition of the value of ones contributions to society, and therefore, true greatness is a bit more elusive to obtain than success. -- Ken Poirot
[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years. -- James Roosevelt
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. -- Lewis Mumford
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
Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields. -- Julius Streicher
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he. -- Duke Ellington

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