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“If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.”

People Ifs Men Littles Two States Age Lost United Deals Liberty Millions United States Unions Thirty Fifty One Man Posterity

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.”

Way Animal Millions Environment Plant Species Mutual Conservation Dependency Save The Environment Rhinoceros Rhinos Saving Animals

Author:David Attenborough

“The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.”

Men Christian America Levels Millions Willing Ought Morality Lows Dollars Corruption Humble Commerce Million Dollars Stoops Low Level

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.”

Mind Made Lasts Race Millions New York Months Solitude Lonely Stranger Desert Midst Splendid

Book:Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

“The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.”

People Feels I Can Lasts Millions Forever Tvs Lucky News Paid Blessed Structure Fortune Insane Accurate Immense Representation Good Fortune

Author:Tom Hanks

“We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.”

Has Beens Dream Might Age Names Waiting Existence Millions Shore Might Have Been Tedious Lethe

Book:Essays of Elia

Source: Essays of Elia

“For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.”

People Brain Millions Television Habit Taste Degrading

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)”

Humans Human Beings Responsibility Millions Conditions Materials South Welfare Bureaucracy Mold Personal Responsibility Carnegie Aristocratic Responsibility To Others

Book:The interior landscape: the literary criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962

Source: The interior landscape: the literary criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962

“For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.”

“For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.”

Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

“I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.”

Ifs Men Feelings Body Would Be Women Decision Millions Struggle Issues Benefits Hundred Bills Court Nine Reports Pregnant Fifteen Committees Legislation Symbolic Appearing Maternity

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.”

“More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.”

Source: The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928

“Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.”

Millions Ten Hollywood Skins Dollars Machinery Million Dollars Intricate Ingenious Baloney

Author:George Jean Nathan

“Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.”

Millions Influence Arms Authority Spring Shadow Constitution Credit Debt Disorder Load Council Dishonesty Vigor

Book:The Portable Edmund Burke

Source: The Portable Edmund Burke

“Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.”

Knows Order Three Differences Money Millions Crazy Taxes Vote

Author:Gertrude Stein

“No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.”

Knows Writing Half Fiction Millions Fool Tongue Appeals Sincerity Cheeks Vitality Respectable Serials Blur Sellers Insincerity Best Sellers

Author:Rebecca West

“Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.”

People Men Order Force Nations Millions Greater Greatness Resistance Great Men Spite Like Family

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.”

People Knows Millions Concepts Majority Dollars Occasions Million Dollars Swelling

Book:The Cornish Trilogy

Source: The Cornish Trilogy

“I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.”

People Hate Millions Return I Hate Screens Forgiven Never Forgive Sunset Boulevard

Author:Billy Wilder

“... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)

“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.”

Believe Has Beens Made Given Nations Wish Chance Millions Models Wine Patterns Chiefs Assimilation

Book:An Anthropologist at Work

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.”

Humanity Nations Millions Humanist Bathroom Tubs

Author:Mary McCarthy

“How much are you worth? I have no idea. How much do you want? Naw.I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million? Oh, my, yes. Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford? The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!”

Knows Want Ideas Money Millions Power Ten No Idea

Author:Robert Towne

“When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.”

Mean Women Space Rooms Millions Rights Written Feminism Solitude Feminist Psychological Abortion Privacy Deserted Abortion Rights

Author:Florence King

“Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.”

“Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.”

“Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.”

Years Humans Littles Human Beings Millions Species Size Survived Doing Nothing Fingernails Shellfish

Author:David Attenborough

“People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?”

People Knows Bigs Wealth Money Millions Know How Dollars Do You Know Clue Million Dollars Macs Big Mac

Author:Billie Jean King

“When you consider how many millions of workdays begin with hangovers great and small, it is mildly surprising to find how few real descriptions of the experience our literature can boast.”

Real Literature Millions Description Surprising Boast Hangover

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.”

People Ifs Stills Millions Ignorance China Participating

Author:Deng Xiaoping

“Don't we realize we're a business, we single girls are? Every building that goes up in Manhattan has more than fifty percent efficiency apartments . . . for the one million girls who have very little use for them.”

Littles Use Girl Realizing Millions Building Percent Fifty Apartment Efficiency Manhattan Single Girl

Book:Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

Source: Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

“A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I've been called by a million names all my life. I don't want a name. I'm better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.”

Want Self Jesus Names Christ Millions Jesus Christ Better Off Grunt

Author:Bernardo Bertolucci

“From the theft of confidential cables to 21st century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.”

History Millions Century Movement Development Protest Territory 21st Century Breakthrough Cables Theft Uncharted Confidential Uncharted Territory Protest Movements

Author:Hillary Clinton

“As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.”

Men Should Years Long White Millions Produce Paid Celebrate Indian Decent Savior Celebration White Man Turkeys Slaughter Deliverance

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.”

World Want Country Kids School Poor Millions Perspective Cost Built Divorce Around The World Kim Poor Countries Access To Education Getting A Divorce

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.”

Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

“I don't like to end my talk with a 700 million dollar loss, even if it shows the importance of Numerical Analysis.”

Ifs Ends Shows Science Loss Millions Importance Mathematics Dollars Analysis Million Dollars

Author:Richard A. Falk

“It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.”

“When our atheistically dominated Supreme Court removed the Ten Commandments from our halls, not a whimper was heard from the 95 million Christians in this country, who still don't realize that their religious freedoms are being systematically removed without a fight.”

Stills Country Christian Fighting Realizing Religious Millions Heard Ten Court Supreme Halls Commandments Supreme Court Religious Freedom Ten Commandments

Book:Faith of Our Founding Fathers: A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations

Source: Faith of Our Founding Fathers: A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations

“The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences.”

“Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of dollars in fund appeals by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, Norman Lear's People for the American Way, and others who claim to believe that the religious Right is the greatest peril to American democracy since Joe McCarthy.”

Source: Piety and politics: evangelicals and fundamentalists confront the world

“Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity group. Yet, to most movie industries a film which offends millions of Christians is fine and dandy.”

“the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions”

America Lying Beauty Millions Darkness Hero Jazz Midst Heroines Egyptian Cool Jazz

Book:Odes

Source: Odes

“In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary to make that dream a reality. We can be extremely proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our Nation and our way of life endure. We are free.”

World Way Two Dream Reality Today America Nations Freedom Millions Taken Century Arms Proud Endure Accomplished Republic American Dream Be Proud

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.”

Lasts Father Millions Son My Son Stable

Author:Michael J. Fox

“It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)”

Millions Rocks Fame Halls Describing Glamorous Miscellaneous Hall Of Fame

Author:Aretha Franklin

“It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.”

Ifs Made Bigs Beautiful Millions Car Building Ugly Noise Made It

Author:Greta Garbo

“New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.”

Knows World Persons Care Desire Individual Felt My Own Existence Destiny Millions New York Strange Concerned Ignorant Hopeful Insignificant Mold Unimportant Strange World

Book:Daughter of Earth

Source: Daughter of Earth

“The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.”

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