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I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
Howard Hughes
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German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades.
Abul A'la Maududi
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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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
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
Stephen Covey
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A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
Angela Merkel
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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
Viktor E. Frankl
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The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
Frank Herbert
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Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.
Peter Drucker
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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
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Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle Obama
12.
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
Peggy Noonan
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Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.
Thomas Kinkade
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The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.
Harold S. Kushner
15.
When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.
Anita O'Day
17.
Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.
Louise Hay
18.
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
William James
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Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace.
Carly Fiorina
21.
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
22.
Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.
Tariq Ramadan
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If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.
Chaim Potok
24.
Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
Brian Mulroney
25.
We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.
Oprah Winfrey
26.
You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
Mother Teresa
27.
I think we're intrinsically spiritual. We're spiritual beings in a physical universe and we are here to make a spiritual contribution.
Mark Victor Hansen
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The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable
Rick Bayless
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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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Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.
Dick Motta
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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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Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
David Packer
34.
The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives
is to have peace in our own hearts.
David Simon
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To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
John Lubbock
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Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.
George Osborne
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Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.
Deepak Chopra
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Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.
Aaron Gillespie
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There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
Nelson Mandela
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Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Mother Teresa
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Ambition without contribution is of no significance.
Kevin Kline
44.
I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
Patti Smith
46.
I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.
Jim Butcher
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[John Adams] always felt that his contribution to bringing about independence went unappreciated, especially after the 1790s when [Tomas] Jefferson began to be lauded as the "author" of the Declaration of Independence.
Gordon S. Wood
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Your contribution is the energy produced in the doing of something, not the end product.
Penney Peirce
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My contribution to film has always been negligible.
Alec Guinness