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• Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.

  Howard Zinn

  Reality, Self, Hands

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.9, Beacon Press

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• The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

  Cory Doctorow

  Real, Damage Is Done, Giving

  "BBC Photographer Prevented From Shooting St Paul's Because He Might Be 'Al Qaeda Operative'". boingboing.net. November 30, 2009.

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• When people write the history of this thing, of bitcoin, they are not going to write the story of 6 million to a billion. What is truly remarkable is the story of zero to 6 million. It has already happened! And we’re not paying attention! That’s incredible. That’s what had one chance in a million and it already happened.

  Wences Casares

  Zero, Writing, People

  "Meet the man building the Fort Knox of bitcoin". Interview with Ben Popper, www.theverge.com. August 29, 2014.

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• If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.

  Bill Gates

  Two, Want, Energy

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• Santa blows all these shipping companies away. He delivers more than 2 billion packages in just 24 hours. He does it by sleigh. He doesn't use tracking numbers and doesn't use trucks. He just uses midgets and a giant bag.

  Craig Ferguson

  Christmas, Blow, Numbers

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• I took the position of organizing 126 Democrats who voted against the Iraq war resolution. And I happen to think it was the right position. Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion, and it could rise the casualties could go into the thousands and the costs could go over a half trillion if we stay there for years, as a number of people on this stage intend to see happen.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Thinking, Years

  N.H. Democratic Debate, www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.

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• I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt

  Andy Partridge

  Book, Jealous, Kissing

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• [Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Different, Aspect, Worst

  Usenet article "Perl and XEmacs", groups.google.com. August 16, 1997.

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• I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mother, Humility, Years

  "The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2010.

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• It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?

  Robert Higgs

  Lines, Littles, Poverty

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• If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Self, Want, Standards

  "Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers". Question 12, lesswrong.com. January 07, 2010.

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• The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.

  David Harvey

  People, Population, Income

  David Harvey (2013). “Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom”, p.58, Columbia University Press

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• More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women's lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world's finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children's children

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Children, Women, Responsibility

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.

  Xi Jinping

  Race, People, Hunger

  "China's Xi named to oversee military, a step closer to presidency". International Business Times, October 18, 2010.

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• A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word 'BUT' which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative - before they tell you. Thus: 'I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but...(a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).

  Frank Mankiewicz

  Strong, Cutting, Opposites

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• There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!

  David M. Raup

  Animal, Survival, Earth

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• The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.

  Robert Jastrow

  Years, Earth, Pages

  Robert Jastrow (1969). “White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars”

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• The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.

  Robert Jastrow

  Years, Rocks, Progress

  "The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe (Letting the Fossil Record Speak; Life - How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?)". Book by Robert Jastrow (p. 23), 1981.

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• You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies literally beyond counting and this is only one universe.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Made, Counting, Galaxy

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.

  Herbert Schiller

  People, Nuclear, World

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.

  Rand Paul

  Wall, Dollars, Conservative

  "Transcript for Rand Paul Rides Filibuster Popularity to CPAC", abcnews.go.com.

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• President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States.

  Conan O'Brien

  President, United States, Poor Nations

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• Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails.

  David Letterman

  Black, Sun, Size

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• .....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.

  Jeremy Narby

  Dna, Long, Body

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.73, Penguin

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• The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Stars, Stress, Thinking

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