"In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways."
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"Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives in misery, which has led to violent confrontation throughout the century."
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"The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today."
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"The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence. They were remote from the population and that's where power was suppose to reside."
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"When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly."
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"I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population."
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"Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation."
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"But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town."
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"A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species."
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"The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection."
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"The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population."
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"A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress."
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"The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said."
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"Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'"
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"We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do."
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