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Population Quotes


"My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles."


"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."


"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"


"There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials."


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


"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."


"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."


"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."


"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."


"We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world."


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


"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."


"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day."
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