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The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget — Unknown Author
Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms. — George W. Bush
The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive… — Bill Gates
When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global… — Unknown Author
I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has… — Michael Myers
This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is… — Frederick Seitz
The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth. — Tony Juniper
Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do… — John Beddington
When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You… — Tony Blair
According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California… — Ann Coulter
We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything… — Jose Mujica
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer… — Jacques Ellul
It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it. — Pope Benedict XVI
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a… — Kofi Annan
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven… — Steven Chu
Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues — Jim Hightower
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at… — E. O. Wilson
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes,… — Robert Muller
We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit into… — Sylvia Earle

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