#contribution

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

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Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions and some negative contributions. It's necessary to have enough to make positive contributions to overcome the problems of each age. ↗

— Jonas Salk

#evolution #problem-solving #age

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. ↗

— Edgar Winter

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In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society. ↗

— Robert Greene

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Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. ↗

— Joe Baca

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Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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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 F. Bass

#am #because #bill #climate #contribution

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#advertising #brokerage #business #cannot #constructive

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

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