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The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty…
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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
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Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase…
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The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of…
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No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early…
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew…
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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
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Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
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The perpetual struggle for room and food.
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
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It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy…
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Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some…
— Jacques Loeb
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Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.
— Marianne Moore
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The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than…
— Adrian Bejan
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It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals,…
— Thomas Malthus
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
— Will Durant
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
— Herbert Read
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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.
— Jared Diamond
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
— Yann Martel
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Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary…
— Herbert Read
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