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• It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Feel Good, Feelings

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• I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Government, Facts

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• The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

  Angela Davis

  Taken, Issues, Political

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.13, Vintage

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• 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

  Zero, Humanity, Admitting

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.161, e-artnow

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• Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Life, Peace, War

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.17, Turner Publishing Company

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• The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Atheism, Proof

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.311, Knopf

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• I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

  Loretta Young

  Thinking, Despair, Want

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• That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

  Angela Merkel

  Groups, Compromise, Interest

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

  Jerry Brown

  Sacrifice, Cutting, Reality

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• Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  School, Forever, Political

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation

  Strom Thurmond

  Appreciate, Black, Minorities

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

  Edgar Winter

  Jazz, Great American, Blues Music

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• I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Suggestions, Stories, Actors

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

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.

  L.A. Reid

  Looks, World, Sound

  "New Michael Jackson music coming in May" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2014.

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• The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp (2010). “Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company”, p.56, U of Minnesota Press

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• It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

  Ethel Percy Andrus

  Relationship, Inspiring, Giving

  "The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus".

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• I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Long, Training

  BlackberryWinter ch. 14 (1972)

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• I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  Edgard Varese

  Dream, Sound, World

  Edgard Varèse lecture, edited by Chou Wen-Chung, published in: "391", Nr. 5. June 17, 1917, translated by Louise Varèse; Quoted in: "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music: A Continuing Symposium", 1996.

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• Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both original and highly exemplary.

  Dean Keith Simonton

  Achievement, Endurance, Peers

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• Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

  Jim Leach

  Drawing, President, Reform

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• We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival on our planet. As true citizens of Australia, properly acknowledged in our constitution, we can look forward not only to improving our own lot, but helping Australia contribute to the well-being of all the world's peoples.

  Patrick Dodson

  Inspirational, Change, Future

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• One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

  Milton S. Hershey

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Teamwork, Mean, Learning

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