The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world.
As for the ethics, law, and politics relationship, there has always been a tension for me as I try to keep them distinct while recognizing their interactions. A valuable contribution to my thinking there and elsewhere was Ellen Meiksins Wood's Mind and Politics, which reinforced for me the ways in which seemingly disparate philosophical endeavors wereare interconnected, and although I have tended to give a certain priority to ethical considerations as part of practical reasoning, I am reminded often enough that this position makes some contentious presumptions.
To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.
Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.
Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.
Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.
Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.
Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.
The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.
How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?
I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.
In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down, and I thought, What a wonderful thing; perhaps I can make some small contribution to this process, myself.
You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.
I'm very fatalistic about life. Whatever happens, happens. The imperative for me is that I do my contribution for my people, for my culture. I still want to make films for them. I still want to make films that confront our struggles.
He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]
Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.
It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody’s contribution is important.