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• We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

  Phylicia Rashad

  People, Doe, Dollars

  "Phylicia Rashad Talks Good Deeds and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

  Ted Rall

  Country, Commitment, Years

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• After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Powerful, Campaigns

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• Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Gambling, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.

  Gordon Strachan

  Team, Taken, Champions League

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• There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment. If you are not focused, you will pick up these energies.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Enlightenment, Energy

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• The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

  Lily Tomlin

  Kings, Queens, Phones

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• Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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• Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Other Worlds

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• There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, People

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• Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Other Worlds

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• I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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• Each of is endlessly generating waves with our actions. If you could see the earth from a vibratory point of view, you would see something like radio waves billions of them, cascading constantly into very complex patterns all over the earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Views

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• We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Humanity

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• The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Clouds, People

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• Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue.

  John B. Larson

  Careers, Two, Numbers

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• What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

  Paul A. Offit

  Vaccines, Dollars, Ears

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people to become aware of their past-life knowledge and talents.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Past

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good time with their lives. People are not happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Meditation

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• We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical, we experience them when we stop thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Sensual

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• When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Stars, Ego

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• Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous

  Juan Somavia

  Children, Kids, Men

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• Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

  Steven Levitan

  Zero, Jukebox, Empty

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• I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.

  Ben Mezrich

  Believe, Goes On, World

  "Facebook author Mezrich: Mark Zuckerberg should love 'The Social Network'". Interview with Steven Zeitchik and Amy Kaufman, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.

  Henning Mankell

  Believe, Shoes, People

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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