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"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."
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"The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow."
"Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population."
"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."
"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."
"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."
"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."
"I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective."
"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."
"There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials."
"The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear."
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"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
"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."
"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."
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
"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."
"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."
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