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"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."
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"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."
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"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."
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"Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population."
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"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."
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"There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials."
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"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 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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"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
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"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
Mankind

"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
Friendship

"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
Virtue

"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."
Equality

"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
Poor

"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
Population

"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
Experience

"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
Truth

"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
Attention

"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."
Man
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