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"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."
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"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day."
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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."

"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."

"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."

"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
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