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"The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam."
"The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God."
"Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated."
"To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting."
"We know when we use the full talents of our population we're more productive. And we know that when people really feel like they can have flexible lives, they're better employees."
"The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death."
"If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is a chimera. A new species does not evolve in the area of its ancestors; it does not arise from the slow transformation of all its forbears. co-author with Niles Eldridge"
"In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense."
"As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created."
"No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000."
"As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate."
"In a saturated population life is always cheap."
"If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population."
"Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about."
"Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich."
"Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show."
"The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that."
"What's called Obamacare is an effort to mildly change this [health-care system], not change it as far as it should go or as much as the population wants it to go, but to make it a little better and a little more affordable."
"It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon."
"There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history. It was internal conquest. You had to defend yourself against what the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, an enlightened figure, called the attacks of the "merciless Indian savages," whose known way of warfare was torture and destruction. Also you had a slave population, you had to protect yourself against them. You needed guns."
