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“The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.”

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Portia de Rossi

Portia de Rossi (born January 31, 1973) is an Australian-American actress best known for her roles as Nelle Porter on 'Ally McBeal' and Lindsay Bluth Fünke on 'Arrested Development.' She married comedian and TV host Ellen DeGeneres in 2008. She authored the memoir 'Unbearable Lightness' in 2010, chronicling her life and career journey. A prominent advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, she has been vocal about marriage equality and various charitable causes. more

“The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members.”

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. Whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt: but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps even longevity are in a degree transmissible... As the human race could not be improved in this way, without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable, that an attention to breed should ever become general.”

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Author:Thomas Malthus

“What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.”

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Author:Francis Galton

“Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

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