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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. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

~Geoff Davis

Topics: Amount Billion Consider Days Dollars Eleven Equal Equals Get Hours Idea Million Passage Roughly Seconds Simplest Terms Thousand Thousand Years Time Trillion Twelve Ways Years

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The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.

~Geoff Davis

Topics: American Back Businesses Creating Day Factory Find Get Helping Honest Jobs More Red Red Tape Rein Small Small Businesses Sooner Tape Washington Work

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Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I'd warmly recommend it. It's super luxurious, and right next door, there's a classic slum. So you can do a quick slum tour and get back to your sanctuary without any inconvenience but with some excellent snaps.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Any Back Classic Door Ever Excellent Four Get Hotel Inconvenience Luxurious Mumbai Next Next Door Quick Recommend Right Sanctuary Seasons Slum Snaps Some Stayed Super Tour Without You Your

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There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Books Continue Cottage End Ended Garbage Get Lost Many Me More Move Near Now Obviously Our Paradise Praised Rage Ruined Speech Tears Tempest Then

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It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Always Amazing America American American Life Ascend Been Class Get Good Good Manners Hierarchy Incredible Just Know Life Like Long Manners More Noticed People Polite Politeness Society Something Specific Struck Things You

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In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Accurate Beer Books Canyon Comparison Cut Get Guy Hand His History History Books Off Out Really Small Stuff Them Utah Want Who You

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I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.

~Geoff Dyer

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The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent the world over. Given the disparity of income and wealth, it's amazing not just that you don't get robbed everywhere - it's amazing you don't get eaten.

~Geoff Dyer

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The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Accustomed Character Essence Fact Get Grown In Fact Inability One Thing The One Thing Thing Things Used

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As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Get Getting Hear Know Myself Pledge Something Soon Sort Used

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