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• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  Vic Snyder

  Country, Journey, Iraq

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• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

  Kary Mullis

  Years, Umpires, Viruses

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• The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.

  Tom Tancredo

  Years, Issues, United States

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

  Mark Foley

  Office, Energy, Cost

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• The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Administration, Helping

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• It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

  David Korten

  People, Interesting, Assets

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• Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.

  Thad Cochran

  Dollars, Half

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• According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Latin, Years, America

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• A billion saved is a billion earned.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Saved

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• We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

  John Prescott

  Believe, House, Pounds

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• Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

  Jim Ramstad

  Years, Records, Hours

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• Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.

  Daniel Yergin

  Technology, Energy, Valleys

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• I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

  Chris Matthews

  Giving Up, Islamic, People

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• If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Dollars, Want

  "Lost and Found: Richard Branson’s Virginity" by Carrie M. King, www.blinkist.com. October 27, 2017.

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• You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Real

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• Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.

  Michael Lewis

  Dog, Cat, Pet

  "Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World". Book by Michael Lewis, 2011.

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• Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.

  Steven Weber

  Hair, Media, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid, Moving, People

  "Obama campaign marks Bin Laden raid anniversary with Romney attack ad" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2012.

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• What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their preferences. When you hear someone say that he doesn't trust the market, and wants to replace it with government edicts, he's really calling for a switch from a democratic process to a totalitarian one.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, People, Decision

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• In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it is safe to say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3 billion. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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• If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.

  Bill Maher

  Children, Crazy, Responsibility

  "Attacking the Pope". "Real Time With Bill Maher", www.foxnews.com. April 16, 2008.

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• The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.

  William Allman

  Beautiful, Lying, Cells

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• The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than 100 billion nerve cells and trillion supporting cells that make up your brain and mine constitute the most elaborate structure in the known universe.

  Joel Davis

  Lying, Cells, Skulls

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• Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an object of research, presents a defiant challenge to its own ingenuity.

  William Feindel

  Cells, Challenges, Brain

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• The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although that extraordinary number is of the same order of magnitude as the number of stars in the Milky Way, it cannot account for the complexity of the brain. The liver probably contains 100 million cells, but 1,000 livers do not add up to a rich inner life.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Stars, Cells, Order

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