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• How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

  Alan Page

  Football, Games, Impact

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• When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dog, Distance, Sight

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• It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

  Dennis Lindley

  Logical, Dangerous, Probability

  "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 5 "The Rules of Probability", p. 64), 2006.

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• In life the loser's score is always zero.

  W. H. Auden

  Losing, Loser, Score

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• As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Airline Business, Facts

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• When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Fun, Invincible

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• A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

  Stephen Hawking

  Space, Firsts, Steps

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• Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

  Talib Kweli

  Essence, People, Hip Hop

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I'm not particularly optimistic, but I hope that the lack of alternatives will lead to it. I would like to remind you of the fact that before May 2015 there was no overall European agenda on immigration. Nothing, zero. It wasn't until after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean that, in response to an Italian initiative, (Europe) began thinking about setting policies for the registration of refugees, their distribution or their deportation.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Optimistic, Thinking, Italian

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we're going to do? We're going to end that loophole. They are going to pay their fair share of taxes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Boeing, Pay, Share

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

  Lissie

  Hero, Perception, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The quantum fluctuations within a zero-point field can start the process that builds the process, which builds into matter, an irreversible process. We have some evidence that suggests that. We don't have a Big Bang, but we have a lot of little pops! A continuous set of little pops!

  Edgar Mitchell

  Bangs, Littles, Matter

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I haven't studied it deeply, but the American banks started the crisis with far more capital and what I would call "good liquidity." The riskiest funding is unsecured wholesale funding. It's the most fickle. Not repo, which the government focused on, too. Unsecured. JPMorgan Chase had almost none of that - virtually zero.

  Jamie Dimon

  Government, Fickle, Funding

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Ideas, Hiv

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.

  Feist

  Fall, Forever, Albums

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Jobs, Mean, The End Of The Day

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Media, Way, Digital

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates? ZERO. The food pyramid is based on a totally irrelevant nutrient.

  Ron Rosedale

  Pyramids, Requirements, Wellness

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• Full and unhesitating implementation of the report's findings must now follow. I call upon the Labour Party to guarantee that there will be zero tolerance of antisemitism.

  Ephraim Mirvis

  Party, Guarantees That, Tolerance

  "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Boris Johnson rules himself out of Tory leadership race Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami, Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

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• For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Records, Investment

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2016

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• If you don't like carbon, if you want to be zero carbon, then you might as well shoot yourself, dry up and blow away because you are carbon.

  William McDonough

  Blow, Dry Up, Want

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon. You see it everywhere.

  William McDonough

  Issues, People, Want

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• All these corporate reports say they want zero carbon. Well that is ridiculous, because you are not telling us what you are, you are telling us what you are not.

  William McDonough

  Want, Ridiculous, Carbon

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

  William McDonough

  Carbon, Positively, Defined

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• The Affordable Care Act has clearly, as Secretary Clinton made the point, done a lot of good things, but, what it has not done is dealt with the fact we have 29 million people today who have zero health insurance, we have even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments and prescription drug prices are off the wall.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, People, Drug

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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