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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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."

"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."

"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."
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"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."

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

"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

"Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments."

"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."

"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."
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