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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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• I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

  Dustin Diamond

  Thinking, Limits, Enough

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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