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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."

"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."

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