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• It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Numbers, People, Half

  "Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2014.

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• These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

  Nelson Mandela

  Numbers, Facts, Healthcare

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• A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.

  Jim Rohn

  Wall, Color, Giving

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• Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

  Ted Strickland

  Country, Jobs, Pride

  "Ted Strickland Speech Text: Read The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Impact, Addiction, Alcohol

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• It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

  Gunter Grass

  Butterfly, Watches, Dangerous

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• One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Forgiveness, Heaven, Merit

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• My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Beer, Science, Young Friends

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• The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!

  Harold Morowitz

  Size, Chance, Evolution

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• The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else

  Robert Lucas, Jr.

  Thinking, Welfare, Economics

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• The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

  George Steiner

  Life, Music, Fashion

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• The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

  David Knopfler

  Challenges, Needs, Statistics

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• If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Home, Support You, Accountability

  graf Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings”

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• You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now." Alec stared at him in horror. "Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Good Luck, Kissing

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1009, Simon and Schuster

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• During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

  Simon Sinek

  War, Loss, Pilots

  "Look Forward: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?

  Stephen King

  Dream, Heart, Sight

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Learning, Men, Progress

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Easter, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run, and that there was a need for feminism. I'd thought it was all solved. There are people like my mom, clearly everyone is equal and it's all fine. Then I get into the world and I hear the things people are saying. Then I get to Hollywood and hear the very casual, almost insidious misogyny that just runs through so much of the fiction. It was just staggering to me.

  Joss Whedon

  Mom, Running, College

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• I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Life Is, Used

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• If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Important

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• And then... as you were sleeping, you said my name. You spoke so clearly, at first I thought you'd woken. But you rolled over restlessly and mumbled my name once more, and sighed. The feeling that coursed through me then was unnerving, staggering. And I knew I couldn't ignore you any longer.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sleep, Names, Feelings

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

  James Hansen

  Decide Upon, Years, Humanity

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• For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Cutting, Army

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• Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Success, Achievement

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 27, 2011

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