#contribution

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself. ↗

— Tom Jones

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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution. ↗

— Judith Martin

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The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

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The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip. ↗

— John Cleese

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Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. ↗

— Paul Berg

#contributions #curiosity #education #i #important

If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

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I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#cure #disease #everybody #i #i think

If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will. ↗

— Harold Ford

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I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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