#billions

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

#africa #america #ample #asia #being

It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people. ↗

— Terry Riley

#am #because #being #billions #coming

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#ammunition #bad #billions #get #learn

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness. ↗

— Tim Bray

#bit #dollars #either #enterprise #i

But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#billions #country #deficits #fiscal #future

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work. ↗

— David Cameron

#going #into #millions #pounds #spend

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#billions #history #industry #influenced #movies

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation. ↗

— John Prescott

#been #billions #central #central government #deprivation

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all. ↗

— Richard Gere

#people #practice #religion

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