Population Quotes

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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed. — William Jennings Bryan
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. — Bill Bryson
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a… — James Buchan
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds… — James Buchan
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom. — Madeleine Albright
There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest. — James Cameron
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them… — Jane Campion
Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's… — Maria Cantwell
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,… — Sherman Alexie
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. — John le Carre
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but… — Noam Chomsky
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky
I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an… — Nick Clegg
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked… — Isabel Allende
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… — Chris Van Allsburg
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… — Eric Alterman
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. — Kofi Annan
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and… — Yasser Arafat
We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do… — John F. Kennedy
The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population,… — Thomas Malthus

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