Billions Quotes - Page 21

• There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

  Brian Ross

  Government, Scams, Charity

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• I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.

  Andrew Schneider

  Husband, Believe, Thinking

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• People who have the courage to be individuals can usually think things through on their own and make sound decisions. They don't say, "What will people think?" They say, "What's the best way to handle this?" The amazing fact is that God created each one of us as a separate, unique person amid billions of other separate, unique individuals. So the best way to achieve real fulfillment is to be yourself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Being Yourself, Real, Thinking

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• I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Teenager

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.67, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher, or fish here in America. We don't care about the beetles, gophers, or fish in those other countries.

  David Letterman

  Country, Hate, Thinking

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• Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.

  Marcus Garvey

  Successful, Race, Years

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press

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• Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Up North, Research And Development

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.58, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Agriculture, Dollars

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• In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Firsts, Agents, World

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.161, Best Books on

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• Finally we got some good news about the economy. Barack Obama got $800 billion to rescue the economy. All I can say is, 'Thank you, Oprah.'

  David Letterman

  News, Economy, Rescue

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• Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dog, Two, Feet

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• See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.

  Will Rogers

  Mistake, Men, Two

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• ...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Inspirational, Reality, Six

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.254, Hay House, Inc

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• Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Latin, Rain, Land

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• If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Years, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I run a multi billion dollar company

  Tito Ortiz

  Running, Dollars, Company

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• If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering these eternal horrible torments and there was nothing I could ever do for them, that, to me, would be Hell.

  Richard Carrier

  Knowing, People, Forever

  "The God Who Wasn't There". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star. We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.

  Jill Tarter

  Stars, Blood, Hands

  "Jill Tarter: A Scientist Searching For Alien Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.wwno.org. July 23, 2012.

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• Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans. Whether we're born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

  Jill Tarter

  Heart, Home, Discovery

  "Are We Alone In The Universe?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 15, 2013.

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• Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
  Never, until the end of time, will there be another such as you.
  You have shown no knowledge or appreciation of your uniqueness.
  Yet, you are the rarest thing in the world.

  Og Mandino

  Appreciation, World, Like You

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• New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.

  Jeff Goodell

  New York, Fighting, Cities

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• It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

  Lisa Unger

  Zero, Children, Fall

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• When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when He said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female" (Matthew 19:4). Adam and Eve didn't come on the scene after billions of years of mutations and evolution. No. God created them all the way back in the beginning-just like Moses reported in the Book of Genesis.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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• Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.

  Marvin Minsky

  Years, Ideas, Childhood

  "The Society of Mind". Book by Marvin Minsky, 1986.

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• The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Eye, Breathing, Silence

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales”, p.34, Harper Collins

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