Billions Quotes - Page 17

• One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.

  Josette Sheeran

  Morning, Motivation, Inspiration

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• There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, Two

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• A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

  Jim Wallis

  Years, Iraq, Reform

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• The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

  Travis Walton

  Truth, People, Stills

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• Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us - Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

  Gary Snyder

  Gratitude, Stars, Sky

  Gary Snyder (1974). “Turtle Island”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.

  Byron Katie

  Light, Important, Pieces

  Byron Katie (2007). “Question Your Thinking, Change The World”, p.203, Hay House, Inc

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• Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Feet, Wilderness, Miles

  "The Spiritual Power Of Dance" by Gabrielle Roth, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2011.

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• In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

  Catherine Ashton

  Rights, People, Democracy

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• The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Strong, Party, Two

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.

  Eric Cantor

  Cutting, Law, Land

  "House Republicans plan symbolic bill to pressure Senate on shutdown" by Felicia Sonmez, www.washingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

  Joe Conason

  Patriotic, Cutting, Two

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• There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

  Paul Cellucci

  Jobs, Mean, United States

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• Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.

  Ray Comfort

  Unique, Men, Years

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• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  Vince Cable

  Team, Office, London

  Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

  Geoff Davis

  Years, Ideas, Two

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• The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.

  Nathan Deal

  Baby, Years, Immigration

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• There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

  Daniel Ek

  Artist, Creating, People

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• But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.

  Lauren Groff

  Talking, Ledges, Care

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• So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

  Jeff Goodell

  Looks, World, Want

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• And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Security Systems, Years, Subsidies

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• Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

  Marc Andreessen

  Technology, Media, Water

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.

  Reza Aslan

  People, Community, Groups

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• You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

  Eike Batista

  Speculation, Company

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• Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

  David Eagleman

  Cells, Cities, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of boobs for five seconds.

  Cecily Strong

  Integrity, Technology, Years

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