Contribution Quotes
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
Stephen Covey -
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Walter Gropius -
There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the other great contribution is American musical theater, which is a whole other kettle of fish.
Tony Kushner -
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. Mencken -
Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
Philipp Meyer -
The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
Oprah Winfrey
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Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation
Paul Strand -
It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
Walter Ulbricht -
I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.
Hannah Arendt -
It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century.
Dalai Lama
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My contribution to film has always been negligible.
Alec Guinness -
My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
Gary Johnson -
You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.
Charles James -
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson -
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 -
Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
Hamid Karzai
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Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes.
Thomas Sowell -
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.
Oprah Winfrey -
Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
Haldan Keffer Hartline