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"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."
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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

"What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?"

"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

"I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."

"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"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."


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


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


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


"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."


"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."


"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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