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Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one… — Karl-Henrik Robert
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion… — Calvin Coolidge
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It… — Seth Shostak
The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental… — Unknown Author
For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth… — Albert Einstein
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in… — Stephen Batchelor
Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of… — Betty White
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep… — Richard Dawkins
We are already eating less animal foods since a few years ago, but we are still eating 8-9 billion animals per year. — Mark Bittman
A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties since 1887. They're… — Stephen Colbert
New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to… — Craig Kilborn
Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live. — Mary J. Blige
You couldnâ€™t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I donâ€™t reallyÂ like coke anymore. Iâ€™m scared of ecstasy. The oneÂ drug I'd like… — Courtney Love
There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had planets, and just… — Jodie Foster
Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest… — David McCullough
Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be… — Carl Sagan
A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of… — Carl Sagan
There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's… — B. J. Novak
The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among… — Stephen Hawking

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