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"Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population."
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"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."

"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."
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"The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself."

"Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States."

"In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color."

"My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met."

"In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'."

"Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure."

"The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself."
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