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“It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.”

May States America Spiritual Causes Rooms Fairs Blame Population Vices Floating San Francisco Pacific Betterment

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.”

Done Left Gone Population San Francisco Residents

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.”

Writing Firsts Has Beens Made Might Able School Purpose Order Found Education Capable Universal Population Enthusiasm Nonsense Collectives Serving Formal Education

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.”

May Dies Sides Poor Mathematics Population Uncles Decrease Arithmetic Surplus Impeccable Scrooge

Book:The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories

Source: The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories

“I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.”

People Born White Thirds Population Oklahoma

Author:Woody Guthrie

“I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.”

Thinking Has Beens Use Community Expression Gay Notes Population Vocabulary Gay Marriage Gay Community

Author:Larry Kramer

“Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.”

White Class Middle Population Wide Middle Class

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.”

Two Black Poor Class Middle Population Middle Class

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.”

Men Humans School Human Beings Education Teacher Produce College Behavior Mass Management Instruments University Population Controlled Chicago Application Columbia Harper Sears

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years Would Be Nations Risk Dying Healthy Gold Clean Population Cents Polls Cleaners

Author:Greg LeMond

“The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.”

People Ifs Mean America Rooms Successful Groups Percent Population Educated Being Successful Wealthy Odds Successful People Modest

Author:Michael Eisner

“There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.”

Needs Different Race Stage Building Evolution Diversity Difficulty Population Protection Tongue Restraint Babel

Book:Evolution and Ethics

Source: Evolution and Ethics

“Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.”

Years Economy Progress Communication Population Capitalist Infrastructure Electronic Communication

Author:Mary Douglas

“If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.”

Ifs Thinking Men Office Percent Population Conservative

Author:Rick Santorum

“Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.”

People Thinking Century Information Ten Skills Percent Everyday Population Barack 21st Century

Author:Michael Azerrad

“The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.”

World Way Trying Seems Form Culture Individual Natural Seeing Shapes Madness Population Landscape Natural World Blinders

Author:Rick Bass

“While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.”

Giving Should Government Voice Half Leader Support Democracy Policy Congress Population Glad Kuwait

Author:Ginny Brown-Waite

“We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.”

“African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.”

Giving White Greater Percent Patient Rate Population Treated African American Kidneys

Author:Xavier Becerra

“I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.”

Self States Bits Percent Population Appreciation Tea

Author:Brad Carson

“My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.”

States Home Individual United United States Healthy Aging Population Reports Carolina North Carolina Home State Overall Health Aging Population

Author:Howard Coble

“One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.”

Young Advantage India Population Our Future Demographics

Author:Vijay Mallya

“Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.”

Enough Born Forever Doors Sky Fronts Civilization Towns Surprise Population Stretching Front Doors Prairie Our Town Casper

Book:Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family

Source: Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family

“I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.”

Thinking Trying Ideas Would Be Political Groups Ought Scientist Population Good Ideas Political Power

Author:David Deutsch

“We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.”

States Plans Including Population Jew Israel Psychological Islamic Palestinian Warfare Unbearable Explosions Jerusalem Population Explosion Psychological Warfare

Author:Yasser Arafat

“In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.”

Has Beens Facts Order Social Heard Thirds Population Spotify

Author:Daniel Ek

“We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.”

People Needs Thirds Population Humanitarian Access Vulnerable Agency Darfur

Author:Jan Egeland

“I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.”

World Shows Fall Left Difficult Sky Tvs Walking Survival Population Ems Fascinated Tv Shows Difficult Times Walking Dead

Author:Cam Gigandet

“The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.”

Years Humans Ends Century Population Transformed 19th Century Industrialization Human Population Delaware Watersheds Estuaries

Author:Jim Gerlach

“People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.”

People Ifs Poor Plans Ought Population Access Poor People Medicaid

Author:John Goodman

“Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.”

Interest Lines Seeing Iraq Population Iran Shia

Author:Richard Armitage

“The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.”

Facts Use Energy Materials Asking Majority Seven Population Woods Meat Damage Proportion Etc Gas Minorities Overwhelming Cents Emissions Raw Materials Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.”

Needs Jobs Young Suffering Opportunity University Population Iran Unemployment Job Opportunities

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.”

Three Cities Thousand Activity Population Related Gang Homicide Jurisdiction

Author:Bob Filner

“There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.”

“No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.”

Science Death Dies Nations Natural Behinds Resources Embrace Privilege Population Driving Boundaries Borders Locks Conquest Natural Resources Legion Despots

Book:Woman and the New Race

Source: Woman and the New Race

“Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.”

Littles Art Helping Nations Media News Population Entertainment Panic Bad News Circulation Winding Up

Author:Ray Davies

“The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."”

People Earth Funny Technology Population Billions Email Irritating Linkedin

Author:Dave Barry

“The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.”

People Heart Has Beens Reason Body Successful Taken Policy Movement News Prepared Population Proof Vitality Corpses Reflexes

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.”

People Important Health Important Things Population Proportion Things In Life Most Important Things In Life

Author:Mildred Blaxter

“Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and life of an individual as well as the health of a nation cannot be measured by that yardstick. If we, entrusted with protecting and defending the health of the population, give in to a salesman's scale of values we are lost.”

Ifs Knows Giving Wells Values Individual Lost Nations Numbers Materials Health Population Scales Convenient Salesman Large Numbers Yardsticks Health And Life

Author:Karl Evang

“The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg Health" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind.”

Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .

“It is certainly not true that the population can be easily divided into those who lead healthy lifestyles, and those who do not: most people's patterns are mixed, with both good and bad areas of life.”

People Healthy Areas Patterns Population Lifestyle Divided Good And Bad Healthy Lifestyle

Author:Mildred Blaxter

“Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.”

Lines Special Encouragement Add South Ill Population Missions Agency Portions Nevertheless Carolina Public Health South Carolina

Author:Nikki Haley

“...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.”

Government Today Brain Like You Constitution Population Tiny Subtle Meant To Be Denied Amendments Federal Government Fractions Nuance Twister

Author:Joseph Sobran

“Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.”

Kind Three Race Events Six Plant Population Billions All Kinds Agriculture Technological Breeding Fertilizer Mechanization

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views.”

Different Views Opinion Special Population Diverse Hawaii Respectful Special Places Different Views

Author:Tulsi Gabbard

“China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.”

“Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.”

Today Young Nations Adults Young Adult Population

Author:Ruben Hinojosa

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