Billions Quotes - Page 16

• Segmented killing and hatred will only stop when we enlarge our personal, national, and international circles of concern to include all six billion people on this planet: not just the white ones, Christian ones, American ones, female ones, or any ones. Simply put: every one.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Christian, Circles, White

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• One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Jesus, Earth, Chance

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• The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.

  Marian Diamond

  Science, Light, Hands

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• I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

  Kanye West

  Leader, Dollars, Answers

  "Behind Kanye's Mask' by Jon Karamanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, People, Lines

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• Here are two facts that should not both be true:
  - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet.
  - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

  Michael Dorris

  Men, Years, Organization

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• Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.

  Paul Hellyer

  Country, War, Mean

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• They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective.

  Marion Nestle

  Choices, Method, Company

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• Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.

  Tom Shadyac

  Cancer, Years, Law

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• For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

  Amanda Hocking

  Book, People, Dollars

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• Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days

  Eli Pariser

  Communication, Data, Two

  Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.16, Penguin

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• It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant to be seen reading this year. It seems like those people aren’t really interested in books. If you’re really into books, you havoc all over the place picking up disparate stuff which you devour hungrily, and the ‘selection’ process is more like a sixth sense hunger, a billion miles away from fashion.

  Steve Aylett

  Fashion, Book, Reading

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• Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Engineering, Years, Cost

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• Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.

  Kevin Bales

  Valentine, Ocean, Years

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• Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production.

  Christopher Flavin

  Oil, Impact, Fuel

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• With the support of our vibrant web developer community and dedicated partners, our goal is to level the playing field and usher in an explosion of content and services that will meet the diverse needs of the next two billion people online.

  Gary Kovacs

  Two, Goal, People

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• The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs… the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.

  Wade Horn

  Breakup, Children, Years

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• I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first 11 months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something, he may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever.

  Jay Leno

  Wall, Office, Trying

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• The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Dollars, Stories, Borrowed

  Barbara Corcoran, Bruce Littlefield (2011). “Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business”, p.11, Penguin

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• I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions.

  Warren Buffett

  Teacher, Fate, Long

  "Zuckerberg, Gates, Buffett and the Triumph of Competitive Philanthropy". www.washingtonpost.com. December 02, 2015.

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• President Obama is launching a new $6 billion space policy that will ultimately take astronauts to Mars. Of course, it's $6 billion and $45 if the astronauts have a carry-on.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Space, President, Mars

  "CNN Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2010.

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• We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, People, Doe

  "Bill Gates Sees Veggie Burgers in Your Future" by Josh Tetrick, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• When you ask for happiness and a beautiful life, ask not just for you, but for everyone. When you ask for something better, ask not just for you, but for everyone. By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone. Can you imagine what would happen if six billion people asked for these things for you?

  Rhonda Byrne

  Beautiful, Mean, People

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Self, Years

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

  Allan Savory

  Inspirational, Motivational, Years

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