One Billion Quotes

31 quotes by 30 authors

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. — Samantha Bee
The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year.… — Jonathon Porritt
Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect light to light to light,… — Hafsat Abiola
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a… — Kofi Annan
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven… — Steven Chu
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
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
I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does.… — Pete Conrad
We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And… — Paul Watson
We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look… — Pope Francis
In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people… — Duane Elgin
During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were… — G. Edward Griffin
Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more… — Allan Savory
I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so. — Yahya Jammeh
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago? — Alan Lightman
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and… — Eve Ensler
Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make. — John Lukacs
Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of… — Juan Somavia
Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for… — Mark Bittman
One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time.… — Geoff Davis

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