Best Billion People Words
171 Billion People quotes by 144 unique authors
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Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more…
— Muhammad Yunus
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I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a…
— Tom Robbins
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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at…
— Barack Obama
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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits…
— Wislawa Szymborska
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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and…
— Ray Bradbury
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Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people…
— Grant Morrison
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I’m a goddess of destruction. Tell me honestly that you find nothing exciting about the idea of a billion people screaming out for mercy when…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Why do you tolerate it? (Kat) The same reason Sin hasn’t resigned himself to death. There are six billion people on earth who need someone…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people…
— Neil Gaiman
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There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any…
— Jostein Gaarder
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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
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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
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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
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Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary…
— Barton Seaver
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On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Given that my title at Google is Chief Internet Evangelist, I feel like there is this great challenge before me because we have three billion…
— Vint Cerf
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics…
— Jose Mujica
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By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is…
— Eduardo Paes
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for…
— Yochai Benkler
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When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.
— Paul Watson
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I want more Internet. I want every one of the 6 billion people on the planet to be able to connect to the Internet -…
— Vint Cerf
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