Billion Quotes

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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still… — H.G. Wells
The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there… — Flannery O'Connor
The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost… — Jonathan Safran Foer
In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold… — Dan Simmons
Anything can be real. Every imaginable thing is happening somewhere along the dimensional axis. These things happen a billion times over with exactly the same… — Eoin Colfer
Imagine the first discovery that one of these epidemics was man-madeâ€”the panic, the violence that would ensue. Thatâ€™s where the end would come. A typhoon… — Hugh Howey
A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There… — Holly Black
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening… — Mark Haddon
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's… — Terence McKenna
The surprise is on the far side." "You're sure?" "Positive." "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with fairies?" "I've already… — Brandon Mull
...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a… — Erlend Loe
Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes. — Jared Leto
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric… — Mark Twain
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd… — Bill Gates
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an… — Carl Sagan
There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils.… — Milton Friedman
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America… — Richard Dawkins
We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served. — Paul Stanley
I've been seeing the change. It's been steady. It's been more controlled than people think. And my own belief is that China knows it also… — Jeffrey R. Immelt
Santa is having a tough time this year. Last year he deducted eight billion for gifts, and the IRS wants an itemized list — Milton Berle

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