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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
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"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."

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

"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."

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

"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."

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

"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
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