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"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

"The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done."

"Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them."

"Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest."

"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."
Explore more quotes by Thomas Malthus


"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."


"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."


"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
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