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  • A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others. -- Zig Ziglar
  • Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view. -- John Howard
  • As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue. -- David Korten
  • It's about really having a God connection: a connection with the divine behind the world and flowing forth out of that in a positive way with love and moving toward making a contribution that pushes forth the evolution of the world. -- James Redfield
  • I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy. -- Liu Dan
  • 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
  • We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played with a round bat. And we wore baseball uniforms, and we thought that we were making a contribution to baseball. We loved the game, and we liked to play it. -- Buck Leonard
  • The meaning of self-esteem is to feel lovable and capable. As parents, we must love our children unconditionally and give them a sense of being nurtured. That's the lovable part. Then, we must provide structure - rules, boundaries, daily or weekly household tasks that give them a sense they are making a contribution. That's what helps kids grow up feeling capable. -- Jack Canfield
  • If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions. -- Hans Selye
  • Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution. -- Alexander Downer
  • You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. -- Stephen Covey
  • 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
  • Unlike every other retirement vehicle, such as IRAs and 401(k)s, you receive a tax deduction for making contributions to your HSA but don't have to pay income taxes on withdrawals. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
  • I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. -- Alan Paton
  • 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
  • I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution. -- Paul Lynde
  • China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played a role in the world economic development. But making the RMB an international currency will be a fairly long process. -- Hu Jintao
  • A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all. -- Kevin Rudd
  • I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy. -- Charles Bass
  • If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. -- Robert Kennedy
  • I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. -- Loretta Young
  • Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution. -- Jane Ripley
  • I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that. -- Halle Berry
  • With all her finesse for cleaning, Snag sometimes felt that her biggest contribution to mankind was making a mess of things. -- SerĂ© Prince Halverson
  • There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. -- Alexander Cockburn
  • Success is making a positive difference to other people, especially seeing others grow, succeed and thrive as a result of your own small contribution. -- Azran Osman Rani
  • One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity. -- William C. Brown
  • MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before making any political contribution. -- Bill Dedman
  • I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution. -- Sean Penn
  • When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world. -- Andy Granatelli
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