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There are 7 billion people on the planet. Pretty much everyone is doing sex. It's not like you need to order the… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
Here's some news from Afghanistan. We're sending more troops to seal up the borders. Can we try that here? Three months, 12,000… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are six and a half billion people in… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids… — Carrie P. Meek Copy Share Image
China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact,… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely flow like a favorite uncle, smiling a… — Hugh Sidey Copy Share Image
I think that people talk about radical life extensions as if it is just one linear kind of journey, when actually what's… — Barry Ptolemy Copy Share Image
1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight. — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer,… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Nothing would more quickly and definitively reduce U.S. income inequality than allowing every worker in all businesses to participate in deciding the… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
