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"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."
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"There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials."
"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."
"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."
"We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world."
"I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location."
"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."
"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed."
"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"
"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
"My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail."
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"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."
"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."
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