I thought there was maybe a half million to a million slides and negatives. As it turned out, there's probably is closer to a million and a half to two million slides and negatives.
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Related But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits! BETH REVIS It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think ... CHAIM POTOK Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up... BETH REVIS I open my mouth. I want o say: I'm breaking, and i need someone to hold me together. But no sou... BETH REVIS The only information I have is that he was at the halfway house, and was missing when they took the ... CHERYL MILLION We really thought starting the weekend that we would be somewhere between $16.5 million and just ove... CHUCK VIANE We're carefully watching OPEC. The indication is that crude production, crude daily output is likely... ALAN ACKERMAN Five years ago, we were assisting about half a million people in flooding. Last year, it was 5.5 mil... PETER WALKER Those numbers are incredible. They thought a half a million dollars wrong. BRUCE JONES Maybe one day the smears of paint Harley left throughout Godspeed will fade, and maybe the stars nev... BETH REVIS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The boardwalk alone is over a half-million dollars. DON BUCK It's probably closer to 2 million as we enter the holidays. SHAW WU The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million... BENNY HILL Two and a half million dollars is a lot of money if you're running in any Congressional district, to... MASSIE RITSCH I feel alone. I don't mean i feel lonely; I mean i feel alone, the same way i feel the blanket ... BETH REVIS When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might l... ALAN ALDA Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made... ROBERT BLAKE Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies. IRVING BERLIN Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 exp... LEE MARVIN OPEC today produces 30.4 million bpd and there is a surplus in the market estimated at over two mill... SHEIKH AHMAD We need to ratchet up our assistance. The next six weeks are going to be decisive. Last year, half a... BOB MCCARTHY Two-and-half million curies of mostly localized radiation were released in the Chernobyl accident, .... GORDON THOMPSON I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performi... RAVI SHANKAR We thought the $3 million to $10 million area was underserved, DAVID NUSSBAUM Most of the teams raised about a half-million dollars to do this. DAVE RILEY With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past thr... NICK LAMPSON I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with... JOHN SURTEES A million here and a million there and you've spent a lot of money. And sadly, you don't have much t... DEBBIE GARVIN If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are ab... JOHN MAYER The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of... E. F. SCHUMACHER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE It is a bill that has driven more than a million people out this week. CECILIA MUNOZ I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them brea... JAMES FREY If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million... ROBERT M. DRAKE Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done. ELON MUSK Lafayette does not have a fiscal crisis. I don't care if it costs a half million dollars, CHRIS WILLIAMS Only the amnesty leg 'worked.' That is, a lot of foreign lawbreakers got full amnesty, and it spurre... JAMES EDWARDS Ice wine has become a half-a-million-dollar industry in our county. GENE SIGEL I've played in sold out stadiums before half a million people, but this makes me nervous. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE My ballpark estimate is that it would be a $2.4 million to $3 million expense to hold the whole team... BOB WOODS For a jury to award half a million dollars for emotional distress means they evaluated the evidence ... MICHAEL MCAULIFFE The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and... ELIZABETH WARREN Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two mi... MICHAEL IAN BLACK Typically, a good A-level game is going to cost $2 million to $10 million, $25 million if it's a mas... ERICK WUJCIK John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we... RAY MANZAREK I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million poun... RON GARAN When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million. JOE LOUIS When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys... DONALD TRUMP We had a goal of a half-million dollars that second year and as the thing kind of blew up and we rea... JASON WOLFE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I've got a funny feeling that if Detroit could spend $80 million this year and the Rangers could spe... DOUG MACLEAN The Democrats are labeled profligate spenders, but I can guarantee I didn't have one bill with a $15... MARK LENO I was astounded to hear there was a $17 million deficit. DOUG YOUNG There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be... PARKER PALMER A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Chronicles, ... It?s big, but with ?Chronicles? we have sold close to half a million copies at this ... DAVID ROSENTHAL With Katrina, you're talking about over half a million people who have been displaced. FRANCES MARINE You can get a company to revenues in your lifetime. And you can get a company to profitable revenues... GERRY LANGELER Iran and Nigeria have got people extremely nervous. There's a concern that around two and a half mil... ADAM SIEMINSKI We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a t... BOB SCHNORBUS A million dollars in pennies is still a million dollars. ANTONIO BRYANT Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million MARK TWAIN There is so much being discovered about human origins. Five years ago, the oldest fossils of hominid... CARL ZIMMER I don't think Steve's going to take a pay cut. He's scheduled to make $9 million, maybe $10 million ... BUS COOK Yes, it was raggedy. Yes, it had its problems. Yes, he did some things that he probably felt afterwa... JIMI HENDRIX I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had ... CAPRICE BOURRET I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. EDDIE RICKENBACKER I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. EDWARD RICKENBACKER In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of t... PETER AGRE Chronicles, ... It's big, but with 'Chronicles' we have sold close to half a million copies at this ... DAVID ROSENTHAL With hunger and food insecurity are at an all time high, the thought of denying nearly half a millio... ROBERT FORNEY The original bids for construction costs started out at $8 million, then it went to $12 million. To ... LARRY BUSH Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER Congressman Shaw will continue an aggressive fund-raising schedule. He is pleased to have nearly a m... GAIL GITCHO Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or... HENRY DAVID THOREAU down to a million and change. TOM SIZEMORE We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those film... JEFF NICHOLS We're going to develop a variety of options that will mix commercial and retail space on the site --... ROLAND BETTS Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go ... MARISSA MEYER [Before he left New Orleans, the 2004 Masters champion landed yet another of those] opportunities ..... MARDI GRAS Over half a million children live in families that struggle to pay the rent and put food on the tabl... CECILIA ZALKIND The filming of 'Prison Break' alone -- half at Joliet Penitentiary and half in downtown Chicago -- w... BRENDA SEXTON He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. EDWIN EDWARDS If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the w... J.D. SALINGER We need to know what we're up against. We're going to probably have to look at something between $3 ... KATHY NEVILL I knew it was a risk, but the $2 million deposited in my off-shore bank account was worth it. I may ... BILL LEAVY It's huge. My guess, and it's a complete guess, is somewhere around $25 million to $30 million. It c... ROBERT WALKER In my opinion it's worth a significant amount more. It certainly is in excess of $50 million. It's p... BILL SAGAN The bacterium Escherichia coli (E. Coli) takes about twenty minutes to divide. So after one hour, on... JENNIFER GARDY great news. A half-million dollars toward a problem we’ve been struggling with for so long is a gr... JAMES ARMSTRONG Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this... DAVID NEELEMAN That's nearly half a million dollars just sitting there. It continually amazes me that hundreds of t... JUDY HANSEN
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CARL SAGAN Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in ... CARL SAGAN It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfyi... CARL SAGAN The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read. FRANCOISE SAGAN No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or noth... CARL SAGAN Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we res... CARL SAGAN We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they... CARL SAGAN Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native ... CARL SAGAN Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understand... CARL SAGAN I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. 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CARL SAGAN The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them — the sense ... CARL SAGAN But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine. CARL SAGAN Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wis... CARL SAGAN I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States... CARL SAGAN Dad was a world-famous astronomer; Mom was the artist who drew the iconic Pioneer plaque. NICK SAGAN It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd fo... NICK SAGAN Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film... NICK SAGAN Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no... FRANCOISE SAGAN We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and te... CARL SAGAN We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a pre... CARL SAGAN We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows a... CARL SAGAN The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. CARL SAGAN The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be intere... CARL SAGAN If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. CARL SAGAN Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how ... CARL SAGAN For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. CARL SAGAN The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. CARL SAGAN Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter. FRANçOISE SAGAN The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matc... 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CARL SAGAN Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowe... CARL SAGAN One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.... CARL SAGAN It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fif... CARL SAGAN In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bil... CARL SAGAN If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe... CARL SAGAN It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk... CARL SAGAN We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 ... CARL SAGAN Are we an exceptionally unlikely accident or is the universe brimming over with intelligence? (It's)... 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CARL SAGAN In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my positio... CARL SAGAN You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such... CARL SAGAN I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence,... CARL SAGAN Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ... CARL SAGAN The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from ... CARL SAGAN The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c... CARL SAGAN Human divisions would be child's play for any reasonably competent alien overlord to exploit - c... NICK SAGAN The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. 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