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“For the sake of the Gospel, it was worth it… All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus. I’ll give you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their record. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Any Jesus among them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. That’s eighty years of ideologies that have popped up where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Just look at the records as far as murder goes among those four groups.”

Giving Years Looks Jesus Records Four Groups Murder Sake Ideology Zero Communist Worth It Nazi Pearls Eighty Harbors Dynasty Islamists

Author:Phil Robertson

“Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.”

Knows Needs Giving Important Feelings Winning Easy Nice Team Position Creating Give Me France Preparation Zero Staff Riders Sponsors Nice Feeling

Author:Fernando Alonso

“This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”

People Way May Whole Successful Greater Cutting Groups Benefits Findings Being True Zero Pie Expanding Giver Magnetic

Author:Adam Grant

“Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in ... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.”

Ifs Looks Two Would Be Young Girl Nice Fit Healthy Models Weight Incredibles Size Look Up Tall Zero Being Nice Young Women Athletic Size Zero Healthy Weight

Author:Tatjana Patitz

“A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.”

People Thinking Needs Play Games Leader Skills Including China Zero Globalization Business Leaders Zero Sum Game

Author:Jon Meacham

“The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.”

Company Pieces Paper Buying Zero Commodity Intangible

Author:Jim Rogers

“Spreading the word on a zero budget is difficult. You find yourself spending all night on Twitter following people; using Facebook to leave messages on various club walls; commenting on YouTube clips and blog posts; giving interviews online and taking photos of bottles to send to websites in the hope that they feature you.”

“Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions, that will last forever. That's real value.”

“The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.”

Long Book Enough Facts Enemy Written Pages Advantage Empty Lazy Abandon Zero Territory Blank Exploring Unwilling Blank Pages

Author:Timothy Hallinan

“Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.”

Imagination Numbers Zero Invites Large Numbers Small Numbers

Book:The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Source: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.”

Men America Teach Hell Conditions Blind Tonight Zero Coming Out Go To Hell Blind Man

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.”

States Turns Religious United United States Prejudice Profound Raised Debate Tolerance Islamic Zero Controversy Mosques Religious Tolerance Ground Zero

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.”

Thinking Crowds Zero Think For Yourself

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.”

Knows World Social Common Hollywood Suspects Zero Valleys Accurate Social Network Silicon Silicon Valley Portrayal Dysfunctional Relationship

Author:Peter Thiel

“My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.”

Fun Millions Share Hundred Investing Selling Enterprise Zero Cash Typical Revenue Aversion Microscopes Biotech

Book:One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Culture Animal Brother Burden Tolerance Cruelty Beast Zero Vegetarian Vegan Zero Tolerance Beast Of Burden

Author:Rikki Rockett

“Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ... and you'll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You'll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It's a trap not being able to prevaricate ... This makes life more colorful!”

Able Action Lying Brother Cycles Zero Sincerity Truthful Traps Colorful Truthfulness Get Ahead Don't Lie

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.”

Want Two Funny Interesting Results Internet Cost Destroyed Thoughtful Barriers Zero Publishers Publish Publication Blogging Bloggers Almost Zero

Author:Dick Costolo

“When you go to bed tonight, ask yourself 'What percentage of my day did I spend creating residual income?' If the answer is ZERO, you're in trouble.”

Ifs Asks Answers Trouble Bed Creating Income Tonight Zero Percentages Residual

Book:Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth

Source: Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth

“If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.”

Ifs War Zero Battlefields Tennessee Ground Zero

Author:Phil Bredesen

“A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout the world, the probability of war drops to zero. The probability of human suffering disappears. Deprivation, poverty, crime - all those things tend to disappear because there's no basis. I'm strictly concerned with the environment that people are raised in and if that environment is altered, so will behaviors be altered.”

“What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.”

Knows Want Facts Dark Thirty Zero Realistic I Want You Portrayal Zero Dark Thirty

Author:Michael Morell

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”

“I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.”

Thinking World Way Looks Play Values Games Industry Add Customers Zero Zero Sum Game

Author:Marc Benioff

“It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.”

Ends Moving Voice Clear Communication Internet Moving On Zero Trends Moved On Transmission Meg

Author:Meg Whitman

“I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.”

Feels Trying Kids Father Mom Raises Motherhood Income Awful Zero Being A Mom Single Mother Single Motherhood

Author:Natascha McElhone

“First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se curity personnel.”

Firsts Believe Mean School America Law Periods Safe Gun Tolerance Exception Zero Officers Law Enforcement Enforcement Personnel Zero Tolerance Guns In America

Author:Wayne LaPierre

“The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s, it comes from ground-zero of the heart. I’m also reminded of James Lee Burke’s sure-footed prose and delight in metaphor. Luminous...nothing short of brilliant...a firstnovel that leaves me impatient for the next.”

Years Heart Book Next Language Rich Metaphor Delight Brilliant Prose Zero Leaving Me Impatient Luminous Kim Ground Zero

Author:Rick DeMarinis

“Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.”

Animal Zero Fathom Animal Life Ocean Exploration

Book:Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea: And on Their Distribution, Considered as Bearing on Geology

Source: Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea: And on Their Distribution, Considered as Bearing on Geology

“You are a 64-track recording - the tracks are always there, they're always with you. Sometimes the harsh tracks are cranked up and the rest are rolled down to zero. Other times the sweet tracks are high and the darkness is low. But it's all you.”

People Life Sometimes Time Music Darkness Sweet Lows Track Being Yourself Zero Harsh Just Be Yourself Always With You

Book:The Tao of Wu

Source: The Tao of Wu

“Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.”

Real Morning Zero Every Morning Cuisine Stoves

Author:Fernand Point

“By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.”

Years Different Zero Punk Rejected

Author:Billy Bragg

“Many questions remain in the UFO controversy. Scientists ask how interstellar pilots could survive a trip of hundreds of years while cutting-edge physicists offer speculation of deep space wormholes and the use of zero point energy. For now, we could not do any better than to study MAJIC EYES ONLY and read the accounts of UFO crash retrievals and ponder what a reality that includes diverse intelligent life outside of our planet might mean for us and future generations.”

“If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.”

Ifs Should Looks Steps Amount Red Data Meat Zero Vegetarian Vegan Vegetarianism Vegetarian Health Vegan Health Optimum Red Meat

Author:Walter Willett

“A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira. This comparison reduced my own limited charisma value to something like zero: Gabeira has excelled at every cultural activity in Brazil.”

Love Beautiful Values Found My Own Activity Towns Comparison Zero Festivals Brazil Charisma Annuals Utopian Matched Coastal

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb There's now no need for rule of thumb. Since zero bend's a dead straight line And concave bends have minus sign, The sum of squares of all four bends Is half the square of their sum.”

Needs Left Lines Justice Half Four Kissing Mathematics Distance Math Circles Mathematical Dumb Zero Squares Centre Intrigue Thumbs Straight Lines Minus Inverse Euclid

Author:Frederick Soddy

“In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!”

Firsts Christian Found Jesus Names Pieces Century Poet Politician Philosopher Greek Zero Historian Scholar Correspondence Inscriptions Zips

Author:Bart D. Ehrman

“Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.”

Values Percent Negative Add Zero Percentages

Author:Vinod Khosla

“Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.”

Extremes Zero Derivatives Sluggish

Book:The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity

Source: The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity

“I'll tell you what - if you attend a Cowboy-Redskins game, you better not leave 'til that clock hits zero.”

Ifs Games Clock What If Zero Cowboy Redskins

Author:Joe Gibbs

“As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.”

Made Country Facts Company Dawn Aviation Zero Airline Airline Business

Author:Warren Buffett

“When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.”

Grows Dog Objects Training Sight Distance Reactions Zero Dog Training Glands

Author:Ivan Pavlov

“How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.”

People Earth Games Football Involved Impact Lasting Zero Sensible Football Game Lasting Impact

Author:Alan Page

“Meaning to send a thank-you note but then not doing it is exactly the same as never thinking to send one - that person is still receiving zero thank you notes.”

Thinking Persons Stills Notes Zero Receiving Thank You Thank You Note

Author:Kelly Williams Brown

“Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.”

Hatred Tolerance Zero Vegas Las Vegas Zero Tolerance

Author:Oscar Goodman

“I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.”

Want Bigs Company Clear Consequence Importance Tolerance Corporate Zero Fraud Avoiding Hype Collateral Zero Tolerance

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.”

Knows Stills Pain Moving Decision Ten Nine Zero Making Changes Thermometers

Author:Vicki Myron

“Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.”

Values Ten Marketing Zero Followers Overrated

Author:Seth Godin

“Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now”

Funny Zero Racing Motor

Author:Murray Walker

“It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny.”

Knows Has Beens Ends Lasts Faces Humanity Destiny Minutes Tests Finals Radio Bombs More Time Zero Atoms Buttons Last Minute Atom Bomb Ground Zero

Author:Charles Sumner

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