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Havelock Ellis

"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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"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."

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

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"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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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"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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