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When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain. ↗

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care. ↗

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#campaigns #congressional #dollars #government #may

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #black #country #ever #founded

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires. ↗

— Katherine Fullerton Gerould

#created #ever #expressly #fashion #fat

If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results. ↗

— Walter Lang

#beginning #benefits #billion #earth #emphasizing

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#base #converted #creed #desert #fear

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #fable #fact #historical #man

You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#cannot #expect #freedom #land #much

But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#china #human #human rights #just #like