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I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Billions Billions Of Dollars Commercial Dollars Exploration Fuel Going Happen Hopeful Hundreds Investment Large Made Only Profits Really Require Revolution Sector Space Space Exploration Think Will Year I Think

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The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

~Albert Claude

Topics: Billions Cell Control Covered Earth Environment Found Her Herself Insure Life Many Over Substance Survival Times Ways Years

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Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: About Amount Big Billions Computer Customer Data Departments Enormous Information Information Technology Money Must Pieces Spend Systems Technology Time Time And Money Worrying

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Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Attorney Bank Billions Billions Of Dollars Capital Commerce Credit District Dollars Few Financial Frauds He His International Investors Lead Like Local Manhattan Prosecutor Robert Schemes Seen Stole Time Which World Worldwide

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Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on 'call centers' to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely on speech recognition not just to handle requests for information but to process customer orders.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Big Big Companies Billions Billions Of Dollars Call Centers Companies Customer Dollars Handle Increasingly Information Just Orders Process Provide Recognition Rely Requests Speech Spend Support Take Tens Which

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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Acres Bears Before Being Billions Communities Consider Each Each Year Feet First Forest Forests Home Make Moose Nation Northern Off Ontario Paper Rip Some Stuff Summertime Three Toilet Toilet Paper Well Wolves Year You

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We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Afford American Billions Continue Developing Developing World Driving Even Everyone Go Going Life Like Lives Living Malls More More People Neither Ourselves People Persuade Planet Planetary Recipe Shopping Suburbs Suicide Way Which Without World

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It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Becomes Billions Committed Democracy Drops Equal Equally Falling Flood Ground Hear Hits Instantly Like Outbreak Rain Relief Sound Sudden Water

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YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?

~Alison Owen

Topics: Apples Attempt Billions Channels Comparing Comparisons Compete Even Get Hits How Kinds Millions Movies Need Numbers Ourselves Own Programs Reality Reality Tv Tv Unnecessary Youtube

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By the end of 2001, between 100,000 to 150,000 Algerians had died in the civil war, as well as 120 foreigners. The cost to the economy ran into billions of dollars. And all this in spite of a tough, 120,000-strong army backed by 80,000 police.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Army Backed Between Billions Billions Of Dollars Civil Civil War Cost Died Dollars Economy End Foreigners Had Police Ran Spite Tough War Well

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