Millions Quotes - Page 31

• While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

  Bruce Hornsby

  People, Way, Things Change

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• If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Tattoo, Regret, Google

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• We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Moon, People, Mosquitoes

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• There's a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could.

  Willa Ford

  Creating, People, New Day

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• Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

  Kim Campbell

  War, People, Population

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• I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Thinking, Dollars, Film

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• Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.

  Fatos Nano

  War, Fighting, Cutting

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• You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

  Gail Porter

  Running, Doctors, Feeling Down

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• Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  People, Challenges, Church

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• We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.

  David M. Raup

  Example, Transition, Fossils

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• There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fraction of the diversity that [according to the theory] actually lived in the past. There are well over a million species living today and . . [it is] possible to predict how many species ought to be in our fossil record. That number is at least 100 times the number we have found.

  David M. Raup

  Animal, Past, Numbers

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• How many million more souls are to pass into eternity without having heard the name of Jesus?

  Lottie Moon

  Jesus, Names, Soul

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.222, Mercer University Press

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• How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

  Joel Barlow

  Left Behind, Mankind, Behinds

  Joel Barlow, “ADVICe To A Raven In Russia (1812)”

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• But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

  Omar Bongo

  Europe, People, Important

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• I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have passed over evolution, people have scattered across the face of this earth, been isolated from each other, developed independently, had different intermixtures between races, peoples, climates, soils... I didn't start off with that knowledge. But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Reading, Men

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez, Sumiko Tan, 1997.

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• My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering and dying millions, we must not see these activities as a substitute for evangelism and establishing churches among the unreached.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Suffering, Dying, Church

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached”, Gfa Books

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• SAS is 'created' 50 million times a year, 15 seconds at a time. These 50 million 'moments of truth' are the moments that ultimately determine whether SAS will succeed or fail as a company. They are the moments when we must prove to our customers that SAS is their best alternative.

  Jan Carlzon

  Years, Alternatives, Succeed

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• But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

  Ezra Stiles

  Government, Two, People

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• It thrills observers and makes the wearer feel a million dollars.

  Philip Treacy

  Dollars, Feels, Observers

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• I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldnt have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency.

  Tom Leykis

  Radio, Internet, Wanted

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• The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

  George Ayittey

  Jubilation, Election, Barack

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• On October 31, 2004, the Minnesota Timberwolves offered Sprewell a 3-year, $21 million contract extension, substantially less than what his then-current contract paid him. Claiming to feel insulted by the offer, he publicly expressed outrage, declaring, “I have a family to feed If Glen Taylor wants to see my family fed, he better cough up some money. Otherwise, you're going to see these kids in one of those Sally Struthers commercials soon.

  Latrell Sprewell

  Kids, Years, October

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• The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

  George Vaillant

  Years, Twenties, Dollars

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• In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

  Peter Agre

  Gdp, Squares, Half

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• I think most of my approach to life has been like that, to find order in chaos, to be in the middle of a bunch of things happening at the same time, but find focus. I strive to be like the sun sitting in the middle of the solar system with all the planets spinning around it - millions of things going on. It's just sitting there being the sun, but exerting gravitational effect on everything. I think man should look at himself that way.

  RZA

  Men, Thinking, Spinning Around

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.37, Penguin

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