Billions Quotes - Page 29

• The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Firsts, World

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• Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

  Charlie Sheen

  Hero, Athlete, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not 'weird'. You are weird.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Reality, Years, Names

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• An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

  John Pilger

  People, Groups, World

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• The primordial blessing, 'increase and multiply', has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.

  Thomas Merton

  Blessing, Race, Together

  Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.

  William Safire

  Mean, Years, Creating

  "The Great Unwatched" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2002.

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• It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Jealous, Sarcasm

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• There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Rays, Fleeting

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

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• The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Thinking, Years, Unbroken

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• US Airways made an $8 billion bid for Delta, including $4 billion in cash and $4 billion in lost luggage.

  Andy Borowitz

  Cash, Lost, Made

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• Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  People, Library, Tiny

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• You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

  Darrell Issa

  Jobs, Dollars, Genius

  "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. January 2, 2011.

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• There are more people with cell phones in the world than any other thing on the planet. There are billions of cell phones. There's not not billions of radios.

  Spencer Pratt

  Phones, Cells, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.

  Bill Bryson

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those "metaphotographers" who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers.

  Fred Ritchin

  Views, Surveillance Cameras, Google

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.

  Jay Leno

  War, Home, Ohio

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• [Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

  Lawrence Lessig

  Dollars, Welfare, Cronies

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• Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.

  Ricky Gervais

  Believe, Animal, Years

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jan 18, 2015

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• A 2011 report produced by Forrester Research estimated that the revenue generated through the sales of smartphone and tablet applications will reach $38 billion annually by 2015. Think about that: An industry that did not exist in 2006 will be generating $38 billion in revenues within a decade. . . .

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, Smartphones, Tablets

  Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011). “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”, p.70, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• That is our larger destiny: to allow the Earth to organize in a new way, in a manner impossible all the billions of years prior to humanity

  Brian Swimme

  Destiny, Years, Humanity

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• Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

  John le Carre

  Views, Sick, Dying

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• Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.

  Thomas Friedman

  Ebay, Order, Pouring

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• Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i.e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.

  Ravida Din

  People, Progress, Dollars

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many. If we want to have a battery-chicken kind of world, with everybody having an absolute minimum diet, you might be able to support 10 billion.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Thinking, People, Support

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I kind of like carbon taxes because we already know how to apply them. We already have apparatus in place. When we talk about these other solutions - like a billion tons of iron filings in the ocean or putting sunshades between us and the sun - they're huge. We have no idea if they will work. We have no idea what their nasty consequences might be. And it's unlikely we can do them anyway.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Ocean, Ideas, Iron

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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