#billion

Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. ↗

— George Soros

#billions #costs #dollars #enforcement #incarceration

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#billions #country #even #forecast #foundation

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ↗

— William Gibson

#being #billions #children #concepts #consensual

Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#bring #content #could #empty #estimate

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India. ↗

— George Soros

#control #government #greed #power #age

He was just beautiful. She'd never known a man could be beautiful, but he definitely was. ↗

— Emily Jane Trent

#erotic-romance #erotica #love-story #romance-sexy #romances

Beauty isn’t all about tooth whiteners, hard abs, and hundred-dollar lipstick. Beauty is about growing old together, remembering when together, laughing together. If my picture disgusts you, fine. Go look at the faces of women who named a price you can buy them for. I’m not the kind of woman who will ever be for sale, and shame on you for not expecting more from a woman, or from yourself. ↗

— Virginia Nelson

#contemporary-romance #romance #beauty

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#billion #broadband #calls #carry #connections

There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#almost #billion #child #china #commercial

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#basic #because #billion #dollars #expect