Billion Quotes
961 quotes by 694 authors
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There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of…
— A. Whitney Brown
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies…
— Russell Baker
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The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
— Robert Breault
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After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to…
— Michio Kaku
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Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this…
— George Wald
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In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a…
— Bill Maher
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It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the…
— Michio Kaku
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Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even…
— Joyce Meyer
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Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is also an occasion…
— George W. Bush
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All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort…
— George W. Bush
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The first billion is a helluva lot harder.
— T. Boone Pickens
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I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate…
— Rose George
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The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than…
— Unknown Author
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Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an…
— Unknown Author
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The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although…
— Gerald Fischbach
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The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it…
— Tim Green
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With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always,…
— Steven Rose
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Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet…
— Prince Charles
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A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is no greater than…
— John Templeton
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