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"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day."
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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."

"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."

"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."
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"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on."

"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."

"It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert."

"The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it."

"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."

"The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult."

"No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity."

"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets."

"The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years."
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