Contributors Quotes

• Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.

  Joe Biden

  Party, My Best Friend, Democratic

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Numbers, Suffering

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• We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

  Ayah Bdeir

  Creativity, Technology, World

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• If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage is bravery of the highest type, and America will be called the "Champion of Peace."

  Spark Matsunaga

  Courage, Peace, America

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• Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There's Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn't have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed by our genes, and unfixed by salient causes in our environment.

  Daniel Dennett

  Stars, Luck, Important

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• Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

  Jesse Ventura

  Winning, Lobbyists, Way

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• The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Burning Fossil Fuels, Fossils

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• I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

  Ronald Reagan

  Money, Cat, Politics

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

  Colin Powell

  Effort, United States, Relief

  Interview on CNN's "American Morning" With Heidi Collins, www.cnn.com. December 28, 2004.

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• Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Feet, Abuse, Cost

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• The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

  Ashley Montagu

  Country, Loneliness, Together

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• I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.

  Sean Penn

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

  Stephen Covey

  Doors, Answers, Stills

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!

  Al Gore

  Smoking, Global Warming, Cigarette

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• The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Equality, Differences

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.208, Penguin

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• There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community.

  Ralph Nader

  Self, Community, Consciousness

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• There's a point in gymnastics where once you get to a certain age your body just isn't going to be able to handle it anymore. But I'd like to continue on as long as I'm able to help the team out and be a contributor to the success of the U.S. team.

  Jonathan Horton

  Team, Gymnastics, Long

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.

  John W. Gardner

  Thinking, Leader, Groups

  JOHN W. GARDNER (1986). “LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION”

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• One way we exercise political freedom is to vote for the candidate of our choice. Another way is to use our money to try to persuade other voters to make a similar choice - that is, to contribute to our candidate's campaign. If either of these freedoms is violated, the consequences are very grave not only for the individual voter and contributor, but for the society whose free political processes depend on a wide distribution of political power.

  Barry Goldwater

  Exercise, Political, Choices

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• Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who came after him, regardless of one's chosen instrument.

  Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

  Skills, Jazz, Century

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• We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.

  Bernie Sanders

  Political Revolution, Years, Class

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• By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Together, Imf, Unions

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• I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Light, Darkness

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• Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.

  Michelle Malkin

  Team, Government, Office

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• We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been the main contributors to freedom in our time.

  Milton Friedman

  Two, World, Unions

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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