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"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."
"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day."
"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
"Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population."
"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"
"There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials."
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"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."
"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."
"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 main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means."
"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
"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."
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