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• ••When I walk across my living room from my chimney to my window, it takes me 10 seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Oxygen, Bird, Rooms

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• I listen to zero pop music, which is really weird from someone who makes pop music.

  Miley Cyrus

  Pops, Pop Music, Really Weird

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• The recovery of the banks is what happens when you reduce competition, lend money to them at zero interest rates, allow them to gamble. That particular style of restoration actually inhibits the economic recovery.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Recovery, Competition, Style

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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• How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

  George Carlin

  Writing, Roman Numerals, Numerals

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• Well, we've got a major effort under way to try to educate everybody, to let them know we have a zero tolerance policy where sexual assault is involved.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Effort, Tolerance

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• If your definition of homosexuality is being able to do whatever you want to, and that you should be able to go and engage in sex with another person, and that because of that, the disease you have is going to spread to that person and they're going to take it home and give it to their wife, how much tolerance should we have for that? We should have zero tolerance for that.

  Scott Lively

  Sex, Home, Gay

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2009.

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• Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Order, Justice, Adoption

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• Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.

  Trent Jamieson

  Fighting, Dark, Night

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• The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Jobs, Reality, Government

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• The president wasn't dragged anywhere, ... In reality, I think, it was his opposition which was dragged upstairs one step at a time from zero to this number that was very close to what the president proposed.

  Mitch Daniels

  Reality, Thinking, Numbers

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• Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Self, Long

  "Chartism". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.

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• Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.

  Sarah Palin

  Pain, Real, Believe

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2010

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• As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

  Joseph Nye

  Motivation, Inspiration, Loss

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• Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no need to worry about the snow. You will get plenty each year. If you live in California or Texas you needn't worry about rain because we won't receive any.

  Jack White

  Rain, Mean, Texas

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• As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,
  all of his works are zero.
  When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead,
  then the work of the Teacher is over.

  Kabir

  Teacher, Long, Worry

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

  Dennis Lindley

  Logical, Dangerous, Probability

  "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 5 "The Rules of Probability", p. 64), 2006.

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• If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

  Dan Deacon

  Lazy, Dollars, Stills

  Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 15, 2009.

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• God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

  Alfred Jarry

  Distance, Infinity

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• Zero, zero belief in myself. And it's changed somewhat, but there's still a lot of that in me.

  Larry David

  Belief, Changed, Stills

  "Who is Larry David?". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

  David Byrne

  Talking, Feelings, Scratches

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2011.

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• Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

  Peter Thiel

  Something New

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Books Summary: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.2, Best Books on

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• If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Supposing That, May, Way

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.199, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mistake, Men, Wings

  "A Man. A Legend. A What!?" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. September 23, 1991.

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• If you have zero access to the Internet, that is an offline device.

  Don Mattrick

  Internet, Offline, Devices

  "Gamers Without Internet Can Stick With Xbox 360, Says Microsoft" by Luke Reilly, www.ign.com. June 11, 2013.

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• What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Artist, Car, Nihilism

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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