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"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
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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."
"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."
"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."
"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."
"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."
"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
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