Population Quotes - Page 19

• The culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse population of Indian and Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir has been unable to reach a consensus on the future of the land and the heterogeneous peoples of the state.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Land, Kashmir, Jammu

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Attitude, Kids, Agency

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Way, Different, Influence

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, People, Influence

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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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.

  Noam Chomsky

  House, Today, Emperor

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Attitude, Adults, Target

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she would crawl under the bed when a stranger came to the house. But in 1989, she found out that her county in south Texas was ranked worst in the country for toxic waste. She wondered if the effluent, dumped into the waters where she and her family had shrimped for generations, might be responsible for the dwindling fish populations. And she suspected that her son's autism might be related to the pollution.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Children, Son

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Brain cancer has a latency in the population of 40 years.

  Devra Davis

  Cancer, Years, Brain

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

  Manmohan Singh

  Children, Thinking, Chinese

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• On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cutting, Hands, Jail

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I think that trade is an important issue. Of course, we are 5 percent of the world's population; we have to trade with the other 95 percent. And we need to have smart, fair trade deals.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Thinking, Issues

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• However, obviously Israel is a much smaller place in terms of population. There are only 6 million people in Israel, where there might be 6 million people in one city in America.

  Meital Dohan

  Israel, Cities, America

  Interview with Anthony Statler, www.bullz-eye.com. November 16, 2009.

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• You have to abolish pension plans. You have to abolish social spending. You have to raise taxes. You have to have at least fifty percent of the European population emigrate, either to Russia or China. You would have to have mass starvation. Very simple. That's the price that the Eurozone thinks is well worth paying.

  Michael Hudson

  Simple, Thinking, Pension Plans

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land. You'll essentially have to introduce neo-feudalism. You'll have to roll the clock of history back a thousand years, and reduce the European population to debt slavery. It's as simple a solution as the Eurozone has imposed on Greece. And it's a solution that the leaders and the banks are urging for responsible economists to promote for the population at large.

  Michael Hudson

  Simple, Government, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they've gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don't have enough money to get by.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, Ninety Nine, Blue

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live in an environment that has properties E. The theory of natural selection is filled with statements of this form.

  Elliott Sober

  Environment, Natural, Form

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• [Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Film, Unfortunate, Blackface

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time - after India and China.

  Martin Sorrell

  Country, Years, India

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction.

  Dale Jamieson

  Powerful, Technology, Self

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful technologies that allow for "action at a distance" that aggregate apparently negligible acts into powerful forces that are transforming fundamental planetary systems. In this sense 'the anthropocene' refers to a period in which nature as an independent autonomous domain comes to an end or is under serious threat.

  Dale Jamieson

  Powerful, Distance, Independent

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What are the prospects for an Arab state serving a leading role comparable to the role that other states place in other regions? There is no obvious candidate. Saudi Arabia has the money but a relatively small population. Iraq was a great potential leader, as a sizable country with great oil resources and a highly educated population, but it went off in the wrong direction.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Oil, Iraq

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• The United States has been an immigrant country. The Hispanics who come here are largely from Mexico and South America. They are Catholics, but that is an American religion. One-third of our population is Catholic so that does not have the same impact as Muslims coming into Europe.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Impact, Europe

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees - far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.

  Adam Hochschild

  Numbers, United States, Proud

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

  Karin Slaughter

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

  Werner Herzog

  Volcanoes, Punishment, Demon

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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