Billion Quotes
961 Billion quotes by 694 unique authors
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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are…
— Andrew Wiles
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The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and…
— Richard Branson
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If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you…
— Warren Buffett
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The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This…
— Jimmy Fallon
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We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one,…
— Philip Wollen
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In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans…
— Michael Pollan
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The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
— Matt Ridley
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Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is…
— Nicola Griffith
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We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and relate the way…
— Oren Lyons
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It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more…
— Winnie Byanyima
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Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world—somewhere between India and the United States.…
— Phil Cooke
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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.
— Aesop Rock
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
— Alan Lightman
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are…
— Joseph Campbell
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We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and we’re doing all…
— Morgan Freeman
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If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer…
— Chris Prentiss
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Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit…
— John C. Malone
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If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.
— Henry Ford
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We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells…
— Albert Wynn
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I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the…
— Carl Sagan
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