Millions Quotes - Page 22

• Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.

  Rupert Hughes

  Sarcastic, Women, Thinking

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

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• The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist who had before been bankrupt in time now found himself suddenly transformed into a capitalist with more millions in the bank than he knew how to dispose of ... More cautious people, like myself, too cautious, perhaps, are anxious first of all to make sure that the new [radioactive] clock is not as much too fast as Lord Kelvin's was too slow.

  William Johnson Sollas

  Science, Years, People

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• To make a million, start with $900,000.

  Morton Shulman

  Money, Funny Money

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• It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

  Zane Grey

  New Year, Years, Decent

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• Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

  Norman Thomas

  War, People, Likes

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• I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Inspirational, Funny, Volleyball

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• Perhaps my most important goal is to create a million millionaires.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Encouragement, Goal, Important

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• We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?

  John Templeton

  Beautiful, Optimistic, Conceited

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• Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the outlook is tremendously bullish if you buy stocks blindly to keep for a century.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Average, Long

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• I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

  Paul Reubens

  Money, Dollars, World

  "Pee-wee's Big Adventure". Interview with Pee-wee Herman, www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories, up to the earth itself, and also because of the fact that the geologic time scale exceeds the human time scale by a million and more times. This difference in time allows only direct observations of the actual geologic processes, the mind having to imagine what could possibly have happened in the past.

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  Science, Past, Differences

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• If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

  Dan Farmer

  Computer, Hooked, Intruders

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• Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

  David Ferrier

  Technology, Light, Computer

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• [During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Children, Men, Liberty

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• If 50 million people say a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing.

  David Severn

  Stupid, People, Liberty

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• I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.

  Orrin Hatch

  Life, Hope, Science

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• About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly.

  William Happer

  Years, Levels, Fifty

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• What we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.

  Nicholas Stern

  War, Moving, Talking

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• Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions, of people to die.

  Rowan Williams

  Attitude, Real, Talking

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• We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.

  Ronen Sen

  People, Energy, Excess

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• ...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over £650 million worth of energy and nearly nine million tonnes of carbon emissions every year. That would be the equivalent of taking three million cars off our roads...we can bring about a Green Consumer Revolution in this country to improve our lives, enrich our economy and protect our environment.

  David Cameron

  Country, Years, Carbon Emissions

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• The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Years, Data, Organization

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• What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Needs, Inquiry

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.35, Routledge

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• Although cyber attacks have caused billions of dollars in damage and affected the lives of millions, few if any can be characterised as acts of terrorism.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Cyber Attacks, Damage, Dollars

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• The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.

  Paul Brown

  Average, Numbers, People

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