Millions Quotes - Page 16

• The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Exercise, Men

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• Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Happiness, Pieces, Mercury

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Kitchen Privileges”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hero, Tree, Saint

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40.

  Matthew Lesko

  Cancer, Breasts, Screening

  Matthew Lesko, Mary Ann Martello (1999). “Free Stuff for Busy Moms”, Information USA Incorporated

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• Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.

  Tom DeLonge

  Cancer, Hitting, My Family

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Believe, Judging

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• What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

  Reid Hoffman

  People, Community, Trying

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• You're a religious man, ... You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'

  Simon Wiesenthal

  God, Religious, Coffee

  New York Times Obituary, September 20, 2005.

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• You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what: I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true.

  James Carville

  Jobs, Military, Winning

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• Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Spiritual, Eye

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• We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Money, Blessing

  Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" Speech, www.reaganlibrary.gov. October 27, 1964.

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• There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

  Julianne Malveaux

  White, Racism, Littles

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• The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Heart, Two, Matter

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Every once in a while, a great nation has to deal with a great issue. Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Men, Issues

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• Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rap, Ghetto, Gangsta

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• You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single....brilliant. Perhaps the most...brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.

  Rachel Cohn

  Song, Sex, Growing Up

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• The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Mean, Race, Dwelling

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• Business money reattaches worldwide
  Deep inside stops the diamond rocks
  In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world
  Rap moves on to the year three thousand

  Kool Keith

  Rap, Moving, Rocks

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• One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

  G. Tyler Miller

  Science, Men, Years

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• Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think.

  Richard Hancock

  Depressing, Hate, Thinking

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• It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.

  Nick Matzke

  Years, Months, Evolution

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• Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• A brand not responding on Twitter is like hanging up the phone on customers. With millions watching.

  Dave Kerpen

  Funny, Educational, Phones

  FaceBook post by Dave Kerpen from Jun 01, 2012

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• Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

  Robert M. Hayes

  Taken, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Robert M. Hayes (1994). “How I Made Millions with Just a Few Simple Ideas!”, Garrett Pub

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• If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

  Robert X. Cringely

  Funny, Humor, Technology

  "Noted from the field". "InfoWorld Magazine", Volume 11, Number 10, March 6, 1989.

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