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It's great to learn more about sports I'm probably less familiar with - stock car racing, rodeo, e-sports - and realize that… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore… — Carole Keeton Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions… — James Shikwati Copy Share Image
When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than… — Jeff Bingaman Copy Share Image
You need to realize that the galaxy is organized and structured and has been for billions of years, that the life that… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
The stock market has gone up and if you are stock picking, that's fine, you may do a bit better than the… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human… — Phyllis Bennis Copy Share Image
Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around… — Daniel Seligman Copy Share Image
"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature… — Robert Frenay Copy Share Image
I don't know if most people have truly taken on board what this says about our place in the natural world. It… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
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Anybody who doesn't think that Hong Kong has to depend on the PRC (China) must be the biggest idiot on earth because… — Gordon Wu Copy Share Image
What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president?… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Hey, here's a way to stop suicide bombings - give the Palestinians a bunch of missile-firing Apache helicopters and let them and… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
They [Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz] will never give peace a chance because they are saying the moment they are elected, the… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
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I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
General Motors committed likewise to invest billions of dollars in its American manufacturing operation, keeping many jobs here that were going to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23… — Charles Barron Copy Share Image