Contributors Quotes - Page 2

• I urge Governments to considerably reduce funds allocated to the military, not only as a disarmament issue, but also as a potential contributor to social and environmental protection and call for the holding of referenda on this issue worldwide.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Issues, Government

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

  Robert Plant

  World, Flash, Be Good

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Firsts, Global Warming, Carbon

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• I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.

  Constance Marie

  Coffee, Birth Defects, Mercury

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• We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Race, Names

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.28, Random House

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• My goal is to be a contributor and to encourage others as they realize their dreams.

  Kai Greene

  Dream, Goal, Realizing

  Source: npcnewsonline.com

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• Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We had the opportunity to make him up out of those things that helped tell the story. We wanted to create both ally and antagonist for John [in the Extraordinary measures].

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Opportunity, Allies

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

  John Bright

  War, Loss, Years

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Mother, Years, Giving

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• My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from.

  Michael Moritz

  Real, Smart, Math

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• We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Party, Writing

  "Quotes From Dem Debate". www.foxnews.com. September 9, 2003.

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• The always-connected culture isn't as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn't need a new toy.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Grace, Mind

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The same sports sayings seem to be used over and over again. If you have your own favorite sport saying and would like to share it, or possibly a story you would like to add please continue to our contributor page.

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Sports, Add, Stories

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• As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers and other billionaire families. These wealthy contributors can literally buy politicians and elections by spending hundreds of millions of dollars in support of the candidates of their choice. We need to overturn Citizens United and move toward public funding of elections so that all candidates can run for office without being beholden to the wealthy and powerful.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Brother, Powerful

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• We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're seeing today.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Today, Violence

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology. What we are lacking is the political will power, and we need your help by the millions to tell Congress to stop worrying about their fossil fuel contributors to their campaigns and worry about their kids and grandchildren.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, Grandchildren, Technology

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• How can you have a world of today where India is not represented in the Security Council; Japan, the second contributor, is not there; the whole continent of Africa, soon to be 54 countries, don't have a single permanent seat; and Latin America is absent? It's not realistic.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Latin, America

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• [ Zionists] dominate the Banking institutions of America and they are the biggest contributors in politics.

  David Duke

  America, Banking, Institutions

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• The Washington Post said that 50% of the contributors of the Republican Party were Jewish and 70% of the Democratic Party. That's 2% and they control America.

  David Duke

  Party, America, Republican

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• The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.

  Robert H. Frank

  Optimistic, Simple, Government

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The Nation of Islam was the biggest contributor to the Million Man March, but poor people gave their nickels, dimes and dollars; some wealthy Black people gave money to make that March a success - and every nickel, every dime, every dollar was accounted for.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, People, Black

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Indeed, a report from the United Nations has revealed that the livestock industry is the number-one contributor to global warming gasses - higher than even the transport industry. Plus, the effect of the livestock industry on our waterways and oceans is disastrous.

  Karen Dawn

  Ocean, Numbers, Global Warming

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• The key was disclosure, and nobody has ever raised a concern that anybody who contributed, whether a campaign contributor or a gift giver, ever got anything for it.

  Tim Kaine

  Keys, Campaigns, Giver

  "Tim Kaine Suffers Backlash Over Acceptance Of Political Gifts". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Peter Overby, www.npr.org. August 2, 2016.

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• For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture.

  Moby

  Airplane, Animal, Two

  "Climate Champions speak out: Moby on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

  Dick Morris

  Energy, Pork, Doe

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