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Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

Thomas Sowell

Country, Weather, Foundation

"Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. April 06, 1999.

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The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

Albert Claude

Cells, Years, Survival

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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

Vinton Cerf

Today, Users

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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Douglas Coupland

People, Facts, Common

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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

Douglas Coupland

Exactly Is, People, Alive

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They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

Jack Abramoff

Business, Realizing, Spending

"Jack in a Box". Adam Zagorin, content.time.com. April 30, 2005.

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I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.

Russ Carnahan

Strong, Technology, Years

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If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Christian, Thinking, Widows And Orphans

"Commentary: Our tragedy and God's love for orphans" by Steven Curtis Chapman, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2008.

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At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

Arne Duncan

Opportunity, College, Risk

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I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

Dave Obey

Cutting, Pressure, Clinton

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You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.

Jason Patric

Office, Dollars, Cruise

Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. January 09, 2003.

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Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie P. Meek

Years, Dollars, Band

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If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

Government, Corporations, Small Business

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Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

Ernest Cline

Life, Stars, Perspective

Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.22, Random House

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That there are billions of people over 60kg weight on this planet is recklessness.

Pentti Linkola

People, Weight, Planets

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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

Joseph Campbell

Cells, Hands, Two

Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

J. Paul Getty

Money, Powerful, Business

"The Great Getty". Book by Robert Lenzner, 1985.

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It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

Stephenie Meyer

Book, Writing, Thinking

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It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

Mike Thompson

Years, Two, People

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Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

John Lukacs

Chinese, Super Power, Superpower

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Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

John Spratt

Running, Country, Years

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At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

Marty Meehan

Benefits, Pushing, Republican

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What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

Marty Meehan

Years, Oil, America

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We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

Albert Wynn

Moving, Hydrogen Fuel, Cells

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Billions and billions.

Carl Sagan

Astronomy, Cosmology

Keay Davidson, Carl Sagan (1999). “Carl Sagan: a life”, John Wiley & Sons

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