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• The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

  Emanuel Celler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population, Growth, United States

• 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.

  Walter Kohn

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Population

• Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, Population, Wealth

• African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

  Xavier Becerra

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Population, American

• Well, let’s assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.

  Eric Shinseki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Population

• Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody’s writing about them. They’re really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

  Renee Ellmers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Population, Grew

• The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food… The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

  Ernst Engel

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Poorer, Population

• As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

  Ernst Mayr

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Population, Fact

• All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.

  Ernst Mayr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population

• I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.

  Ernst Mayr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population

• 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.

  Ernst Mayr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population

• Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

  Ernst Mayr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Living, Different, Population

• Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there – I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.

  Candace Bushnell

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Population

• Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we’re gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Population, People

• Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can’t be treated or cannot be treated economically.

  Ralph Merkle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population

• There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.

  Ezra Stiles

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population, Believing, United States

• There is a hugely underserved population out there… those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

  James Cameron

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population, Hugely, Capable, Paying, Capacity

• To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Topics in Country, Knowledge

  Tags in Population, Great, School, Leave

• When you’re bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

  Walter Cronkite

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bringing, Population, Information, Candidate, Coverage, Needs, Sitting

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

  Thomas Robert Malthus

  Tags in Population, Indefinitely