#contribution

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#budget #california #contributions #crisis #cuts

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#concerned #contribution #dead #egyptian #living

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#accorded #advance #been #century #contribution

I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#assistance #both #continue #continued #contributions

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#beings #contributions #fellow #fellow human beings #her

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#chief #contribution #god #human #human thought

I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#certain #cinema #contribution #each #feel

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game. ↗

— David Miliband

#aid #big #british #contribution #date

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#canada #come #contribution #destroy #had

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#culture #environment #important #less #long