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"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
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"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."
"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."
"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."
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
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