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• Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

  William Gibson

  Children, Technology, Cyberspace

  1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

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• Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

  Conrad Hall

  People, Industry

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• The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

  Anita Loos

  Years, America, Fake

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

  Michael Porter

  Thinking, Use, Philanthropy

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Eye, Thinking, World

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• Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Organization, Mexico

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• I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.

  Maurice Strong

  Decision, Program, Projects

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• A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

  Greg Walden

  Jobs, Loss, Average

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• Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Talking, People, Dollars

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Inspirational, Perspective

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books

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• A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Dust, May

  Cosmos ch. 1 (1980). Sagan denied using the phrase "billions and billions," as caricatured by comedian Johnny Carson, but the above quote approaches that phrase, and Sagan was extremely fond in his writing of the word billion or billions.

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• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  Abraham Flexner

  Education, Peace, Money

  Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

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• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Blow

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

  Dustin Diamond

  Thinking, Limits, Enough

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• Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Two, Roots

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• In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Depression, Years, Gdp

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• Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond

  Herb Kohl

  Easter, War, Winning

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• We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

  James Wolfensohn

  Two, People, Population

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. April 23, 2001.

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• For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.

  Herman Kahn

  Opportunity, People, Growth

  Herman Kahn, William Morle Brown, Léon Martel (1976). “The next 200 years: a scenario for America and the world”, William Morrow & Company

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• There once was a brainy baboon,
  Who always breathed down a bassoon,
  For he said, It appears
  That in billions of years
  I shall certainly hit on a tune.

  Arthur Eddington

  Years, Tunes, Baboons

  New Pathways in Science Chapter III, Section IV The End of the World (p. 62)

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• We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

  Jim Wallis

  Children, Moving, People

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• Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

  Bill Delahunt

  Cost, Internet, States

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• We have to still develop the IKEA group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Russia, Ikea, Groups

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

  Andrew Wiles

  Four, Want, Infinity

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said "billion" many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said "billions and billions." For one thing, it's too imprecise. How many billions are "billions and billions"? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? "Billions and billions" is pretty vague. When we reconfigured and updated the series, I checked-and sure enough, I never said it.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Numbers, People

  "Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium". Book by Carl Sagan, 1997.

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