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1 " The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most. "
― Abraham Flexner , Universities: American - English - German
2 " 'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue. "
3 " You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office. "
4 " It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth. "
