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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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"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials."

"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."

"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."
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"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."

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