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Sean Wargo We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.
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Shripad Tuljapurkar We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.
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Bob Gammage There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.
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Peter Feinstein We're interested in watching the next phase of high-rise condos going up, and we're interested in seeing how the Stardust comes together with their new $4 billion product. We have cash flow we can sit on while we're watching the market.
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Byron Dorgan We spin around the Sun with 6 billion of us and somehow through divine providence we landed right here right now.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.
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Louie Gohmert I think TARP was the most defining vote since I've been in Congress. It was wrong. You don't nationalize private - it was wrong. It desensitized people to what $700 billion was, which opened the door for a $900 million stimulus, for Obamacare, for all these things. It was wrong. It broke my heart.
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Charles Dickens There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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Charles Caleb Colton Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Charles Caleb Colton Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Charles Caleb Colton With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
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Charles Caleb Colton He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Charles Caleb Colton It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
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Charles Caleb Colton If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
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Charles Caleb Colton That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
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Charles Caleb Colton Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.
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Alan Bennett I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
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Al Ries It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
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Akio Morita An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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Akio Morita The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Akio Morita The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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George Foster We want the players to have a framework to evaluate business opportunities put in front of them. The sporting theme (inspires) much more passion for a lot of people, but a lot of sporting ideas go bankrupt, so passion is not enough. You've got to have revenues come through the door and you've got to contain your cost.
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Richard Williams We want them to have a real-world experience, which means working with people from other schools and cultures, which gives them an experience of diversity. Some students never would have considered a career in international business and exportation without this kind of exposure.
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Mike Clasper We want to streamline the management and admin staff of the business and get our managers closer to the business to deliver that better leadership and get the right people in the right jobs.
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Ido Hartuv We want to see who in the group supports his (Robertson's) statements. Those who support the statements cannot do business with us. Those that publicly support Ariel Sharon's recovery ... are welcome to do business with us.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.
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Joel Edgerton Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
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Michel Faber Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.
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Meg Rosoff I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
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Sechan Pillay Then, on Tuesday night, we were told that we could fetch our passports. It meant we could get back home.
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Bible Bible And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
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Edward Coke Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale
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Henri Matisse I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.
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David Hillery The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.
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Ken Hitchcock We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.
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Steve Groene Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,
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Heizo Takenaka Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.
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Linda Jeffers At least 50 percent of them want to come home. The most important thing for them is safe levees.
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Robert Townsend All organizations are at least 50 percent waste -- waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time.
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Don Lynn About 99 percent of the returns are electronically filed.
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Bob Willis About 90 percent of the construction has been done in-house.
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Lori Lucas About 81 percent say they plan to save later.
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Adelaide Clemens I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.
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Stedman Graham How can I go out there and create value?
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Johnny Depp There are 4 questions of value in life..
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Philip James Bailey The value of a thought cannot be told.
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Michael Jordan Nothing of value comes without being earned.
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George Carlin Where do we get our values from?
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Frederick Douglass Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
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Friedrich Nietzsche The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
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Julius Baer (It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.