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“Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I don’t know if it’s right to count people like you count numbers.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.”

— Anthony Liccione

“These are, after all, national figures, meaning they may not reflect the experience of population subgroups, which may fare considerably better or worse than…

— Elizabeth H. Bradley

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

— Max Barry

“Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.”

— Jarod Kintz

“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at…

— Adam Hochschild

“I am tired of writing dainty little biographical things that pretend that I am a trim little housewife ... I live in a dank…

— Shirley Jackson

“If Forbes would put a list of the 400 oldest Americans and I was on that one—that’s the list I really want to be…

— David Andrews

“To my mind, modern life just offers too many numbers that we're supposed to keep track of.”

— Ann Aguirre

“Care about people first, then numbers.”

— Alin Sav

“Am I the only one that worries about the nation filling up with gender challenged people?”

— Steven Magee