Estimated Quotes
128 Estimated quotes by 121 unique authors
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Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling…
— Paul Gillmor
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Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.
— Charles Goodyear
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I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which…
— Christopher Columbus
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Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an…
— Jared Diamond
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It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
— Dennis Hastert
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The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to…
— George Jackson
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor…
— Lactantius
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The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
— Bjorn Lomborg
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By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery,…
— James Monroe
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on…
— Richard Neal
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It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.
— Lucy Powell
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Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
— Jerry Saltz
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Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided…
— Mark Skousen
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There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us…
— Daniel Tammet
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A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000…
— Greg Walden
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America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why…
— George Will
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Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a…
— Bill Bryson
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Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens…
— Nick Hornby
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God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated…
— Oswald Chambers
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We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With…
— Matt Taibbi
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The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we…
— Oswald Chambers
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Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way…
— Terry Pratchett
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I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the…
— Graeme Simsion
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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