Billion Quotes
961 quotes by 694 authors
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I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!
— Paul Reubens
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A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy…
— Arthur Eddington
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For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they…
— Hans Cloos
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I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has…
— Hannes Alfven
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We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a…
— Paul Davies
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Every single negative can lead to a positive. Any negative situation... don't get too down about it - you'll work it out. You learn it…
— Simon Cowell
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Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong.…
— Michael Ruse
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the enormity of that. When I…
— Anne Hathaway
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While many have been left behind by Part D, there is a clear winner: the drug industry. Independent analysts predict that Part D will increase…
— Louise Slaughter
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You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.
— Deacon Jones
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There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5 billion.
— Tony Blair
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...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
— Gordon Brown
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The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year.…
— Jonathon Porritt
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth.…
— Bill McKibben
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Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect light to light to light,…
— Hafsat Abiola
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There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the…
— Paul Wolfowitz
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... something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a…
— Barack Obama
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We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers.…
— Barack Obama
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