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• No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Population

• 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

• Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state’s population – but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state’s revenues.

  Thomas Menino

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Population, Percent

• I tend to discourage people from calling me ‘Sir Ian,’ because I don’t like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you’re writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They’re impressed by these things.

  Ian McKellen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population, Impressed, Official

• 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

• Santa is our culture’s only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It’s a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that’s a pity.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Topics in Christmas, Uncategorized

  Tags in True, Population

• As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Population, Expertise, Situation

• Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.

  Ed Royce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nigeria, Population, Africa

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

  William Jennings Bryan

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  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

• 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

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

  Ernst Mayr

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• 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

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• Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.

  Peter Fraser

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Population

• Five years from now, 10 years from now, there’s going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they’re going to be nationalistic, they’re going to be religious, and they’re going to be militant.

  Christopher John Matthews

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Religious, Population

• It’s clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

  Frederik Pohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science, Population

• Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.

  Edward Sapir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population, Appearance, Movement

• 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.

  Peter Raymond Grant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population, Process

• 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.

  Julia Louis Dreyfus

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  Tags in Population