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• It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Love Is, Half, One Love

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• You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Powerful, People, Connections

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• There is broad scientific consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation and a cumulative total of 2 billion acres planted, no adverse health or environmental effects have resulted from commercialization of genetically engineered crops.

  Pamela Ronald

  Years, Environmental, Acres

  "Scientists Are Happy California Won't Label Genetically Modified Food" by Christie Wilcox, www.businessinsider.com. November 7, 2012.

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• There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?

  Norman Borlaug

  Two, People, Volunteer

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• Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.

  Norman Borlaug

  Cutting, Animal, Agriculture

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• I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.

  Craig McCaw

  Interesting, Connections, Looks

  Interview with Sharon Pian Chan, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. June 2, 2002.

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• 13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

  Frank Oski

  Pregnancy, Years, Care

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• Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

  Preet Bharara

  People, Directors, Dollars

  "How Prosecutor Preet Bharara Is Bringing Mob Squad Justice to Wall Street" by Massimo Calabresi, swampland.time.com. February 01, 2012.

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• I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.

  Harold Hamm

  Believe, Yield, Years

  "Birth Of A Wildcatter - How Harold Hamm Got His Start". www.forbes.com. December 6, 2012.

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• If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.

  Di Morrissey

  Death, Years, Body

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• Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These affluent 800 million, however, account for more than 75 percent of the world's energy and resource consumption, and also create the bulk of its industrial, toxic, and consumer waste.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Country, Two, People

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• The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Ignorance, Years

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• Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw. The region, the largest frozen peat bog in the world, had begun to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago. Scientists believe the bog could begin to release billions of tonnes of methane locked up in the soils, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The World Meteorological Organisation recently reported the largest annual rise of methane levels in the atmosphere for a decade.

  David Adam

  Giving Up, Believe, Years

  "Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Military, Believe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Government, Size

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.

  Benjamin Carson

  Giving, Personality, Brain

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Facts, Leafs

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• The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion.

  Bob Dole

  Clever, White, House

  "Dole to unveil Reaganesque economic plan". www.cnn.com. August 5, 1996.

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• The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

  Vagit Alekperov

  Technology, Engineering, Dollars

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• Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ethics, Driving, Bigs

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• This is the national equivalent of having no savings, your credit card maxed out, you didn't renew your insurance, and now your house has burned down. The only way we can start to solve this is rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, which would save about $70 billion.

  Diana DeGette

  Cutting, House, Saving

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• Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.

  Chris Hadfield

  Loneliness, Cities, People

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• The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

  Todd Akin

  Father, Heart, Catholic

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• Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

  David Cameron

  Running, Party, Ideas

  "Put in a tight spot by the cat's backside" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2006.

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• We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

  W. Richard Stevens

  Years, May, Evolution

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