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171 quotes by 158 authors

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is… — Elsa Schiaparelli
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that… — Alice Walker
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. — John Wooden
If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they… — Dorianne Laux
If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure… — John O'Donohue
When one has talent, everything contributes to its development. — Peter Kropotkin
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others. — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every… — Jane Austen
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry… — Angela Carter
When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way… — Benjamin Carson
Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do… — Roger Zelazny
All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others. — J.R.R. Tolkien
No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes… — Daniel Keyes
Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all. — Paulo Coelho
Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error… — Pascal Mercier
A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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