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“As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized that he could obliterate himself completely. If you consider the way the whole world was impacted, 18 million people worldwide died, and that is taking into account military and civilian deaths: 18 million people. And it was the whole world, if you will. You know, many of those trenches were dug by Chinese. There are photographs of Chinese looking like they just came from China, with their hats and so on, digging the trenches, right from the beginning.”

People Ifs Knows Men World Way Firsts Said War Whole Millions Military Accounts Died Photograph China Whole World Chinese Hats Civilians Digging Great War Trenches Civilian Deaths

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.”

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Author:Max Fisher

“I am very timid about speaking for the collective. I can say what I see, I can say what I've heard, I can say what I feel, but I can't speak for - no one can speak for - 10 million people, and it takes away something from them if you make yourself their voice.”

People Ifs Feels I Can Speak Voice Millions Heard Collectives

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.”

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Author:Marion Nestle

“After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.”

People Years Kind Moving Order Courses Levels Numbers Millions Written Media Events Disease News Fairs Spread Dramatic Related Bombs Massive Steady Avoided Famine Malnutrition Attrition

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.”

Ifs Knows Pleasure Views Millions Environment Havens Late Point Of View Discussion Executives Print Vans Jet Recycling

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“You have tens, hundreds of thousands of people in government, and just as many among contractors, who feel totally comfortable writing at the top of the document "internal use only," "official use only," and a million other synonyms, all of which amount to "none of your business" to the public.”

People Feels Writing Use Government Millions Amount Comfortable Officials Internals Documents Synonym Contractor None Of Your Business

Author:Ted Gup

“With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.”

Thinking Energy Millions Middle Security Wind Summer Addiction Oil Miles Squares Warning Eastern Implications Melting Arctic Warning Signs Wind Energy

Author:Jay Inslee

“I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.”

“I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.”

People Thinking Children War Millions Streets Okay Just One Children Playing

Author:Asne Seierstad

“We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth.”

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Author:Enrique Pena Nieto

“Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have one of the world's top high-tech industries and a high standard of living. There is only one thing we haven't achieved: Making the country safer for Jews.”

World Country Stories Today Millions One Thing Havens Industry Standards Jew Israel Standards Of Living High Standards Success Stories

Author:Yair Lapid

“Prada makes really nice bags and then somebody in China makes knockoffs. This is the knockoff version of the mutant world. You have Weapon X. you have government spending millions of dollars to make it, and then you have these guys who are making thugs out of people that they pull off the street, or who are damaged, or who have found themselves in terrible positions for some reason.”

People World Reason Government Guy Found Millions Nice Streets Position Terrible Weapons Dollars China Spending Versions Bags Really Nice Thug Government Spending Mutants Prada Knockoffs

Author:Timothy Miller

“About three million Muslims live in the country, but we have no relationship to our diverse Muslim society, despite the fact that it's an established part of our larger society. We need to build a stronger foundation for the relationship between Muslims and the state.”

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Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they are not four-year universities. I know differently and so do the millions of people across the country who have received an affordable, quality higher education at community college.”

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Author:Jill Biden

“Sixty million people died in the Second World War. World War II was a gigantic crime. We condemn it all. We are against bloodshed, regardless of whether a crime was committed against a Muslim or against a Christian or a Jew. But the question is: Why among these 60 million victims are only the Jews the center of attention?”

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Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“Five million Palestinians have not had a home for 60 years. It is amazing really: You have been paying reparations for the Holocaust for 60 years and will have to keep paying up for another 100 years. Why then is the fate of the Palestinians no issue here?”

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Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“Baseball does have some slack here. When they were losing $20 million a year in Montreal, there was some pressure to get rid of it. But as long as they are [profitable] in Washington, there is less pressure. They've got eight bona fide $450 million offers to buy the team, and those offers aren't going to go away soon.”

Years Long Doe Millions Team Offers Losing Baseball Pressure Eight Going Away Profitable Montreal

Author:Andrew Zimbalist

“I saw that Donald Trump is selling his penthouse suite at the Trump Park Avenue building here in New York City for $21 million. When asked why he's selling it now, Trump said 'Hey, Americans seem to be buying everything else I'm selling, so why not strike while the iron's hot.'”

Said Seems Cities Millions Saws New York Building Trump Hot Strikes Selling Hey Parks Buying Iron Why Not New York City Avenues Penthouses

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Republican candidate Ben Carson told reporters he thinks American prisons might be too comfortable. As opposed to Mexican prisons that have personal showers with $5 million escape tunnels.”

Thinking Might Millions Republican Comfortable Prison Candidates Reporters Showers Mexican Tunnels Ben Carson

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.”

Company Millions Cost Research Dollars Aids Treatment Altruism Hiv Pharmaceutical Hiv Aids Pharmaceutical Companies

Author:David Mixner

“The quantum death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 24 hours before he was "officially" declared dead it was announced on the internet that he had already died. Many people were shocked to hear of his "official" death, especially those who had believed he was already dead. Philip Seymour Hoffman was both dead and alive in the minds of millions simultaneously. A rare death for a rare actor.”

People Mind Actors Hours Millions Alive Internet Died Officials Quantum Shocked Philip

Author:Dean Cavanagh

“Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.”

“When the media worries about what Hillary’s hair looks like or what my hair looks like, that’s a real problem. We have millions of people who are struggling to keep their heads above water, who want to know what candidates can do to improve their lives, and the media will very often spend more time worrying about hair than the fact that we’re the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people.”

People Knows Want Looks Real Country Facts Problem Care Earth Water Can Do Millions Worry Struggle Media Hair Majors Health Care Candidates Guarantees More Time Real Problems

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Never mind that the new Visitors Center in Washington DC cost the taxpayers $621 million. Oh and that was ONLY $550 million more than the project was originally supposed to cost. Not to mention the fact that it was supposed to open three years ago .. but it was a government operation. What do you expect? I definitely want to put these people in charge of my healthcare and my retirement plan.”

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Author:Neal Boortz

“In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.”

Faces Millions Crisis Graves Opponents

Author:Gichin Funakoshi

“I’m one of those moms who’s at the bus stop with my camcorder every year, with my phone taking a million pictures as they get on the bus.”

Years Millions Mom Phones Bus Bus Stops

Author:Melissa Gorga

“From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.”

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Author:George Saunders

“It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?”

Feels Years Believe Doe Light Happens Would Be Dies Answers Millions Personality Persist Comforting Naps Laptops Plugs

Book:Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

Source: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

“Back when I had a little, I thought that I needed a lot. A little was overrated, but a lot was a little too complicated. See, zero didn't satisfy me. A million didn't make me happy. That's when I learned a lesson that it's all about your perception....THERE'S HOPE. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. Better thank God for that.”

Littles Pay Millions Laughing Needed Lessons Cost Perception Complicated Zero Thank God Make Me Happy Back When Overrated

Author:India.Arie

“He will long be remembered as one of the great Christian thinkers of our century, with a childlike faith and a profound compassion toward others. It can rarely be said of an individual that his life touched many others and affected them for the better; it will be said of Francis Schaeffer that his life touched millions of souls and brought them to the truth of their creator.”

Long Said Soul Christian Individual Compassion Millions Century Profound Creator Remembered Touched Affected Thinker Childlike Great Christian Childlike Faith

Author:Ronald Reagan

“With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.”

Millions Audience Gold Bigger Silver Microsoft Xbox

Author:Nancy Tellem

“When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.”

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Author:Ruchi Sanghvi

“Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the measure of abhorrent acts, all sorts of unspeakable crimes somehow become acceptable. I may have found myself on the wrong side of government on torture. But I'm on the right side of history. There are things we should not do, even in the name of national security. One of them, I now firmly believe, is torture.”

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Author:John Kiriakou

“There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.”

Way Numbers Millions Performances Arriving

Author:Ali Farahnakian

“Getting lab results to child clinicians faster compliments our Action Plan for Health Care by helping more patients get the right care, at the right time. It's quite the achievement when over two million children across Ontario will experience better and more coordinated care thanks to the work being done by SickKids and eHealth Ontario.”

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Author:Deb Matthews

“It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.”

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Author:Francisco J. Ayala

“Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.”

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Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.”

Years Pain Millions Evolution Survival Built Warning Mechanism

Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“You can cruise the world's millions of omega-3 Web sites without encountering any reflections about where these prized fatty acids are coming from and at what social or environmental cost. For some people, what goes into their bodies has become an overriding obsession. Perhaps we are witnessing a successor to the Me Generation--namely, the Don't Care About the Rest of the World as Long as I Have a Spa and Some Omega-3 Fatty Acids Generation. Let's call it the Omega-3 Generation for short. Or is that thought just too depressing?”

People World Long Body Care Social Millions Generations Cost Reflection Environmental Don't Care Obsession Depressing Site Acid Cruise Successors Spas Fatty Fatty Acids

Author:Charles Clover

“A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!”

Ifs Men Years Millions Curiosity Bored

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!”

Years Believe Mean Children Has Beens Universe Millions Silent Insult Fables

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The scientific community, public health officials, and others have raised serious doubt about the steps taken to ensure the safety and efficacy of the herbal dietary supplements taken daily by millions of Americans, as part of a broader investigation, NYAG is reviewing the sufficiency of the measures manufacturers and retailers are taking to independently assess the validity of their representations and advertising in connection with the sale of herbal supplements.”

“A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at the shock, the local pastor was asked to break the news gradually. The pastor made a customary call, and while visiting casually asked the old man what he would do with a half million dollars if he had it. The old man replied, "why, I'd give half of it to you." Whereupon the pastor dropped dead.”

Ifs Men Giving Made Might Past Winning Poor Half Break Millions News Dollars Hearing Locals Shock Old Man Tickets Pastor Million Dollars Visiting Lottery

Author:Art Linkletter

“This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.”

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.”

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Author:Corrine Brown

“It's funny to hear how much certain people resist the lip ring. Sometimes I'll do a piece on an important topic and all the YouTube comments will be about the lip ring. I don't really have a good answer for why I got the lip ring. I just wanted it! But I've had it for a million years. I got my lip pierced when I was like 15.”

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Author:Cara Santa Maria

“For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.”

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Author:Nico Muhly

“I always buy the same things. I have about a million sweaters and a million jackets, so I'm sure I'll get some more of that.”

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Author:Elsa Hosk

“American girls are much more financially savvy - for example, if a girl went to Paris and she was going to do a fragrance campaign, she would say she wouldn't do it for less than half-a-million dollars. Whereas a girl from the Czech Republic would do it for $100,000. I think that's a really big imbalance that created the demise of the modeling industry - and it also created a gap in giving girls an opportunity to become or gain super-status.”

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