Contribution Quotes

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A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community. — Richardson Wright
Inequality also distorts our democracy. It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions, and runs the… — Barack Obama
An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it… — Peter Drucker
The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then sit down as… — John Silber
The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.… — Lev Grossman
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical… — Terry Riley
The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He… — Steven Pressfield
Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of… — Robert K. Merton
The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but… — Elliot W. Eisner
The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for… — James L. Buckley
Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. — Brian Mulroney
I do think that people have an obligation to give back but that doesn't necessarily mean that you give back just the traditional way. Maybe… — Steve Case
Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence… — Dan Simmons
The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development. — Elliot W. Eisner
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This… — Judith Martin
My worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops,… — Ashley Cole
The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple… — Denton Cooley
The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to… — John Dewey
I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy… — Paul Halmos
I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and… — Naomi Wallace

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