"No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever."

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"No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever."

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

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Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

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"Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings."

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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

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"The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice."

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"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."

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

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"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."

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"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."

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"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."

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"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."

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