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3103 Million quotes by 2202 unique authors
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There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of…
— A. Whitney Brown
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What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our…
— Carl Sagan
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It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition…
— Marvin Minsky
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies…
— Russell Baker
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My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.
— Woody Allen
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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our…
— Dan Quayle
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[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
— E. O. Wilson
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Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that…
— George W. Bush
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About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by…
— George Wald
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No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will…
— Ronald Fisher
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... When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base.…
— Muhammad Yunus
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In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out…
— Peter Kreeft
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Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can't buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale. ...Your attitude towards your…
— Denis Waitley
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A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money…
— Andrew Carnegie
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My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our…
— Phil Mickelson
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Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology…
— Lionel Tiger
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What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on…
— James Wolfensohn
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If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of…
— Rajiv Shah
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The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although…
— Gerald Fischbach
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The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it…
— Tim Green
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I wanted to be a nobleman; I bought a name and a title... Oh, nothing is impossible with five million a year.
— Eugene Sue
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The latest developments in Iraq are deeply troubling, but as the United States considers military and diplomatic responses to the actions of the Islamic State…
— Sean Patrick Maloney
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It's a one-to-one dialogue. You open your mouth and you're talking to 6 million people.
— Unknown Author
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