Billions Quotes - Page 33

• Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

  David Platt

  People, Injustice, Christ

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2015

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• Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'

  Mona Charen

  Religious, War, Elderly

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Welfare Programs, Issues, Paper

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.184, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Years, Three, Vacuums

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.27, Penguin

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• I'm not a vegetarian. Now, don't get me wrong - I like animals. And I don't think it's just fine to industrialize their production and to churn them out like they were wrenches. But there's no way to treat animals well when you're killing 10 billion of them a year. Kindness might just be a bit of a red herring. Let's get the numbers of animals we're killing for eating down, and then we'll worry about being nice to the ones that are left.

  Mark Bittman

  Kindness, Nice, Thinking

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• Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.

  Hugh Ross

  Stars, Humility, Support

  Hugh Ross (2010). “Why the Universe Is the Way It Is”, p.41, Baker Books

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• After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't show up on financial statements, but have cost us many billions.

  Charlie Munger

  Mistake, Opportunity, Cost

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• Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid by historical standards, but now give him $100 billion in assets and measure outcomes across all of it, it doesn't look so good. We can only buy big positions, and the only time we can get big positions is during a horrible period of decline or stasis. That really doesn't happen very often.

  Charlie Munger

  Hurt, Giving, Historical

  Charlie Munger's opening remarks at the 2005 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 4, 2005.

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• It took us months of buying all the Coke stock we could to accumulate $1 billion worth - equal to 7% of the company. It's very hard to accumulate major positions.

  Charlie Munger

  Coke, Buying, Months

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, Microsoft, Done

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.

  Terence McKenna

  Way Forward, People, Simplicity

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• We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to dwarf you. It tells you that the sun will not fluxuate for another billion years, that species come and go, and, in other words, on a temporal scale you don't matter. And that now doesn't matter. But when you look at the release of energy, the asymptotic speeding up of processes, we tend to be xenophobically oriented toward the human.

  Terence McKenna

  Humble, Dwarves, Years

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• There are over a million types of fish in the sea as there are flowers in all of the world's gardens. There are at least a million different types of rocks/minerals as there are species of birds or monkeys. To believe we are the only "intelligent beings" on this earth and beyond is ignorance. The possible configurations of lifeforms that could be created from a single atom are infinite. There are at least a billion people on this earth, and no two faces look the same. It is very arrogant to assume that we have seen all of God's miracles.

  Suzy Kassem

  Believe, Flower, Ignorance

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• So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Years, Waiting, Pieces

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Government, Stressed

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• ....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

  J. Paul Getty

  Dollars, Remember, Used

  "J. Paul Getty Dead at 83; Amassed Billions From Oil" by Alden Whitman, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 1976.

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• What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

  Jack Welch

  People, India, Asia

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

  Cory Doctorow

  Violence, Terrorism, Hundred

  "BBC Photographer Prevented From Shooting St Paul's Because He Might Be "Al Qaeda Operative"". boingboing.net. November 30, 2009.

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• I truly believe that America`s greatness and billions and billions of dollars of our wealth flows away because China doesn`t treat us fairly.

  Chris Matthews

  Believe, Greatness, America

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When I was a kid, I felt like I could do anything and play anything. I just felt super-confident. And then, once I started to play music professionally, maybe it's from being from a small town, but you grow up and then you're suddenly a big fish in a small pond, and I realized that there were a billion other drummers out there that could play as good as you or better, and everybody wants that job.

  Patty Schemel

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.

  Roderick Nash

  Couple, Years, People

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• What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

  Ricky Gervais

  Years, Born, Feels

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Oct 26, 2013

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• A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had waited until happy hour, they could have paid half that.

  Conan O'Brien

  Budweiser, Half, Shame

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• Ironically, members on both sides of the debate do agree about one thing: big bang cosmology puts their position in jeopardy. The big bang poses a problem for young-earth creationists because it makes the universe billions of years old rather than thousands. Such an assertion undercuts their system at its foundation. Big bang cosmology also presents a problem for atheistic scientists because it points directly to the existence of a transcendent Creator - a fact they dare not concede.

  Hugh Ross

  Years, Earth, Facts

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• One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Years, One Day

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