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• If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Mother, Children, Dirty

  Opening Remarks at Press Event on Day of Seven Billion, www.un.org. October 31, 2011.

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• Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.

  Wernher von Braun

  Stars, Thinking, Would Be

  1960 In the NewYork Times, 29 Apr.

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• I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

  Sabrina Lloyd

  Travel, Thinking, Common Sense

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• Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

  Peter De Vries

  Science, Years, Expanding Universe

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• If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Kids, Cutting

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Distance, Promise, Tunes

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• For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.

  Herman Kahn

  Opportunity, People, Growth

  Herman Kahn, William Morle Brown, Léon Martel (1976). “The next 200 years: a scenario for America and the world”, William Morrow & Company

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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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• I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said "billion" many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said "billions and billions." For one thing, it's too imprecise. How many billions are "billions and billions"? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? "Billions and billions" is pretty vague. When we reconfigured and updated the series, I checked-and sure enough, I never said it.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Numbers, People

  "Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium". Book by Carl Sagan, 1997.

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• A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Dust, May

  Cosmos ch. 1 (1980). Sagan denied using the phrase "billions and billions," as caricatured by comedian Johnny Carson, but the above quote approaches that phrase, and Sagan was extremely fond in his writing of the word billion or billions.

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• There once was a brainy baboon,
  Who always breathed down a bassoon,
  For he said, It appears
  That in billions of years
  I shall certainly hit on a tune.

  Arthur Eddington

  Years, Tunes, Baboons

  New Pathways in Science Chapter III, Section IV The End of the World (p. 62)

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• In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Depression, Years, Gdp

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• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Blow

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond

  Herb Kohl

  Easter, War, Winning

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• Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

  Andrew Wiles

  Four, Want, Infinity

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• We have to still develop the IKEA group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Russia, Ikea, Groups

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Inspirational, Perspective

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books

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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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• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  Abraham Flexner

  Education, Peace, Money

  Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

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• Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Two, Roots

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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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• Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

  Bill Delahunt

  Cost, Internet, States

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• We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

  Jim Wallis

  Children, Moving, People

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