Millions Quotes - Page 17

Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute.

Robert Goodloe Harper

Military, Defense, Tribute

Toast at dinner for John Marshall, Philadelphia, Pa., 18 June 1798.

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In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.

William Sloane Coffin

Biblical, Gay, Reality

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Jerry Gillies

Money, World, Dollars

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We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day. It is our responsibility, not only as a nation, but also as individuals, to get involved. So, next time you pass someone on the street who is in need, remember how lucky you are, and don't turn away.

Lesley Boone

Country, Children, Responsibility

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If there are a million roads into hell, there's not one road out.

Leonard Ravenhill

Hell, Christianity, Ifs

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Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn't know is that mother nature puts 24,000 times that amount of our main greenhouse gas-water vapor-into the atmosphere every day and removes about the same amount every day. While this does not 'prove' that global warming is not man-made, it shows that weather systems have by far the greatest control over the Earth's greenhouse effect, which is dominated by water vapor and clouds.

Roy Spencer

Mother, Men, Clouds

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I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine, and disease in the decades ahead.

Mark Lynas

Science, Hands, Judging

"A climate of censorship" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2006.

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The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.

Edmond Taylor

War, Europe, Mind

Edmond Taylor (2015). “The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922”, p.312, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million. The estimated dividend income received by the Thomson family in 1995 from its 72% ownership share of the Thomson Corporation and its 22% ownership share of the Hudson's Bay Company was $310 million.

Jim Stanford

Corporations, Return, Income

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Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars, the harmony and rhythm that issue from the world as from a lyre, the return of the seasons, the alternation of the months, the demarcation of day and night, the fruits of the earth, the vastness of the air, the ceaseless motion of the waves, the sound of the wind?

Gregory of Nazianzus

Faith, Stars, Inspiration

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Jerry Gillies

Mistake, Decision, Brain

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Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights as us around the world.

Sara Quin

Rights, Lgbt, World

"Tegan And Sara Pose For NOH8 Campaign, Vow To Remain Unwed Until All Can Marry" by Glennisha Morgan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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We drilled in the right place - we were simply 30 million years too late

Richard Bray

Years, Too Late, Right Place

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When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility that some UFOs are alien does not seem quite so farfetched. Serious-minded scientists in astronomy and other disciplines estimate there could be billions of planets in the universe, and millions that could harbor life. If even a few of those planets were occupied by technological civilizations, their ability (if not desire) to explore other worlds, such as ours, must be a possibility.

Don Berliner

Light, Discovery, Other Worlds

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While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms against racial minorities and political dissidents in the Soviet Union, the facts that the U.S. Army's solution to the 'Indian Problem' was the prototype for the Nazi 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem' and that the North American Indian Reservation was the model for the twentieth century gulag and concentration camp, are conveniently overlooked.

Jonathan Ott

Stress, School, Army

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As we open the gates to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, we know that millions of guests will open their hearts to this fantasy world where characters and stories spring to life, where dreams come true and where families will have fun together.

Jay Rasulo

Dream, Fun, Spring

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All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings - anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination.

Julia Serano

Blood, Imagination, Needs

Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.132, Seal Press

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Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.

Jonathan V. Last

Baby, Son, Parent

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Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They're 'only rodents'. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They're 'just chickens'. They aren't human, so they don't count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn't justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.

Joan Dunayer

Hurt, Pain, Empathy

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Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.

Steve Farrar

Christian, Inspiration, Years

Steve Farrar (2010). “God Built”, p.161, David C Cook

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They've been very helpful. They allow voters to cut through the din and clutter of the $100-million smear campaign the unions have been waging against the governor, and they allow voters to hear directly from the people who are for change and from people who are against change.

Todd Harris

Cutting, People, Unions

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This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.

Adam Gollner

New York, Fun, Halloween

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When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was like "What is this?" At that moment, I could've been written off. But I had to believe because I really love what I do. I'm passionate about it. If 12 million recognize it, that's beautiful. If 12,000 do, that's beautiful. But I'm always going to put my heart and soul in it and I'm going to shoot for the stars and go for the highest levels of recognition and creativity. I definitely doubted myself at the time. But it always come back to believing what I do.

Common

Beautiful, Stars, Believe

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Why did one straw break the camel's back?
Here's the secret:
The million other straws underneath it.

Mos Def

Rap, Hip Hop, Secret

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I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level
Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

KRS-One

Rap, Hip Hop, Devil

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