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

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

"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."

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

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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."

"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."

"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."

"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"

"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."

"My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles."

"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 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."

"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."

"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed."
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