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• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  Karl Rove

  Past, Wish, Causes

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• The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

  Paul Ryan

  Doe, Debt, Administration

  "Bipartisan Blue Ribbon Panel". Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2010.

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• Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.

  Wernher von Braun

  Stars, Thinking, Would Be

  1960 In the NewYork Times, 29 Apr.

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• I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

  Sabrina Lloyd

  Travel, Thinking, Common Sense

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• Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

  Peter De Vries

  Science, Years, Expanding Universe

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• If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.

  Tim LaHaye

  Jesus, Son, People

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• According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.

  Seth Lloyd

  Years, Density, Sitting

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• I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

  Ian Hart

  Careers, America, Teeth

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

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• Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Change, Years, Language

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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• I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

  Rick Larsen

  People, Track, Legacy

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• We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

  Mac Thornberry

  Oil, Feet, Alaska

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• I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.

  Mark Kirk

  Running, Dream, Past

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world.

  Peter Chernin

  Real, Phones, Cells

  " News Corp heeds call for mobile content" by Dominic Timms, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2006.

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• Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

  John M. McHugh

  Dollars, Environment, Destroying

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• I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.

  Todd Rundgren

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Believe, Years, People

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• Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

  Anton Chekhov

  Creativity, Men, Animal

  "Uncle Vanya". Act I. Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Mother, Children, Dirty

  Opening Remarks at Press Event on Day of Seven Billion, www.un.org. October 31, 2011.

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• It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Years

  "A Look at Organized Crime" by Woody Allen in "Disquiet, Please! More Humor Writing from the New Yorker" by David Remnick, Henry Finder, (p. 364), 2008.

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• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  A. R. Ammons

  Stars, Four, Hundred

  A. R. Ammons (1998). “Glare”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Stars, Powerful, War

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• Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

  Dave Barry

  Oregon, Gdp, Literature

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• We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

  David Cameron

  Pounds, Welfare, Millions

  "David Cameron claims welfare reform will save in the long run" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2010.

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• We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

  Everett Dirksen

  Dollars, Becoming, Dictionary

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• Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

  Richard Gere

  Practice, People

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