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• A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

  E. O. Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population, Economic, Growth

• 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

• It’s a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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  Tags in Wonderful, Credit, 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

• 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

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

  Emanuel Celler

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  Tags in Population, Growth, United States

• 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.

  Emanuel Celler

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  Tags in Population, Forecast, United States

• Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

  Emanuel Celler

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  Tags in Population

• 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

• I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It’s quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

  Eduardo Galeano

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  Tags in United States, Ignorance, Population

• A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Result, Population

• As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

  Roy Barnes

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• I soon became convinced… that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

  Fritz Zwicky

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  Tags in Population, Convinced

• The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

  Constance Baker Motley

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  Tags in Class, Population

• The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

  Constance Baker Motley

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  Tags in Poor, Population

• New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population, Atmosphere

• USA Today has come out with a new survey – apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

  David Letterman

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• 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

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• The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

  Bobby Scott

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  Tags in Population

• It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

  Gertrude Stein

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  Tags in Extraordinary, Population