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• Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Business, Loss

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• When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.

  Richard Jeni

  Funny, Life, Men

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• If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Church

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.103, Beacon Press

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• I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Men, Thinking

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Autumn Rivulets', 'Who Learns My Lesson Complete?'

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• I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.

  Robert Fulghum

  Time, Years, Watches

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.184, Ballantine Books

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• You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

  John C. Maxwell

  Ideas, Dollars, Influence

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell”, p.102, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils. They resemble the earliest life forms and suggest that life started under the Ground. The bible talks of Eden as a sunny parkland with white fluffy clouds, but it probably ascended from the region that we now associate with Hell.

  Paul Davies

  Spring, Clouds, White

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• What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?

  Michael Shermer

  Spring, Space, Hands

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• Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could do the same. So why haven't they come to Earth?

  Enrico Fermi

  Spring, Years, Civilization

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• Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River. The peak is a coiled dragon, the city a crouching tiger more dazzling than before. The sky is spinning and the earth upside down. We are elated yet we must use our courage to chase the hopeless enemy. We must not stoop to fame like the overlord Hsiang Yu. If heaven has feeling it will grow old and watch our seas turn into mulberry fields.

  Mao Zedong

  Courage, Rain, Yellow

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• The TV set, or Satanic family altar, has grown more elaborate since the early 50s, from the tiny, fuzzy screen to huge ‘entertainment centers’ covering entire walls with several TV monitors. What started as an innocent respite from everyday life has become in itself a replacement for real life for millions, a major religion of the masses.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Wall, Real, Everyday

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• Children die every day because millions of us tell ourselves that caring is just as good as doing.

  David Wong

  Children, Caring, Dies

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• Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  War, Sleep, People

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• At the end of the day, you have to make sure you're at least listening to what your head is telling you, what your heart is telling you. That's hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.

  Bode Miller

  Heart, People, Listening

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• The decision was strictly based on my interest of living and working in Singapore. I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I already paid and I will keep paying whatever taxes I owe based on my time as a U.S. citizen.

  Eduardo Saverin

  Government, Decision, Dollars

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• I am obligated to and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government.

  Eduardo Saverin

  Government, United States, Dollars

  "Senators target Facebook co-founder for giving up citizenship, seek to impose taxes", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.

  Steven Moffat

  Blessed, Doctors, Wind

  "Fictional character: River Song". Doctor Who: Forest of the Dead, June 7, 2008.

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• I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

  Grigori Perelman

  Running, Know How, Knows

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• Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

  Grigori Perelman

  Running, Opportunity, Giving

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• There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.

  Kara Goucher

  Focus, Reason Why, Reason

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Mar 20, 2013

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• I try to think about positive things - how great my form is, how my arms are swinging, my breathing, how loud people are cheering. My sports psychologist taught me there are a million things telling you you can't keep going, but if you find the things that say you can, you're golden.

  Kara Goucher

  Sports, Cheer, Thinking

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• To overcome of our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia's population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated.

  Grigory Zinoviev

  Russia, Enemy, Overcoming

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• The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc.

  Michael Merzenich

  Reading, Average, Years

  "Are we getting smarter or dumber?". Interview with Stefanie Olsen, www.cnet.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.

  Phil Plait

  Bad Day, Years, Dinosaurs

  "How to defend Earth from asteroids". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2011.

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• Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

  Renny Harlin

  Dollars, Actors, Littles

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