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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. – Thomas Robert Malthus

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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. – Gore Vidal

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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. – George Bernard Shaw

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The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven. – Graham D. Leonard

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