Contributes Quotes
171 quotes by 158 authors
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Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe…
— Margot Asquith
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The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict,…
— Michael Mandelbaum
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It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success…
— David Rubenstein
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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
— Jack Vance
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In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its…
— Andrew Coyle Bradley
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In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is
— Nancy Kress
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Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to…
— Hu Jintao
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the…
— Florence Kelley
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Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is…
— Jan Gehl
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only…
— Andre Gide
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Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
— Cecil Frank Powell
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The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources…
— Walden Bello
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Be grateful for your challenges, setbacks, adversity and disappointments. Be grateful for your opportunity to overcome every single one, because doing so contributes to your…
— Hal Elrod
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
— Michel de Montaigne
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A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
— Aristotle
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Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
— Mike Royko
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I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones…
— Twyla Tharp
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Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result…
— Thomas Sowell
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This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.
— Sidney Jourard
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart...
— John Berger
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158 authors contributed a total of 171 Contributes Quotes, led by these top contributors: