contribution
Noun
Meaning
That which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals.
An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.
Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit.
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The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
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.
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history.
The river swells with the contribution of the small streams.