Population Quotes - Page 17

• Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

  Gabriel Luna

  Sports, Majority, Fantasy

  Source: collider.com

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• Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  World, Existence, Curse

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• Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

  John Stossel

  Government, Income, Half

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• People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Punishment, People, Prison

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

  Terence McKenna

  Ego, Males, Psychedelic

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• Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent.That other percent, someone will have to explain to me.

  Bill Maher

  Half, Election, Vote

  "Coulter Exposes Maher As An Environmental Hypocrite". "Real Time with Bill Maher", www.newsbusters.org. July 9, 2011.

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• I had actually, after the Paris attacks in this country, we all patted ourselves on the back and said, "Well, we have a much more assimilated Muslim population here than they do in Europe."

  Dalia Mogahed

  Country, Europe, Paris

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.

  John Stossel

  Government, America, Giving

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• The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Three, Fertility

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• In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.

  Yehuda Levi

  Europe, America, Energy

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• Cities originally surrounded by a wall can produce an urban population cut off from the surrounding fields and from agriculture altogether. At the same time, the greenbelt laws eliminate the possibility of the unchecked expansion of a city into a monstrous megalopolis. If there is a need for additional homes, a new city must be established.

  Yehuda Levi

  Wall, Home, Cutting

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• Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

  Ali Babacan

  Strong, Labor Force, Quality

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• In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Europe, Parent, Density

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• Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

  Elif Safak

  Believe, Government, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.

  Elif Safak

  Europe, Turkeys, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's the Puget Sound, which will kill you, if you fall into it, but it's also beautiful. Seattle is a city of contradictions. It's the most liberal and most literate city in America, and it has Starbucks and [Bill] Gates, but it's also where the Green River killer hunted women and where the runaway population is just shocking when you walk the streets. Within the same city, there's darkness and light.

  Veena Sud

  Beautiful, Fall, America

  Source: collider.com

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• I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological innovation and productivity that is crucial. But when unregulated, they often generate levels of vast inequality and ugly isolation that makes it difficult for people to relate and connect with one another.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, People, Innovation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway.

  Paul Outerbridge

  Sex, Body, Want

  Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”

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• Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in dark alleys with switchblades. You can well imagine liberals' surprise when the crime rate went down as more criminals were put in prison. The New York Times was reduced to running querulous articles with headlines like Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction and As Crime Rate Drops, the Prison Rate Rises and the Debate Rages.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, New York, Dark

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.44, Crown Forum

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• The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Danger, Iranian

  "Noam Chomsky: Talking About Iran Sanctions Is ‘Surreal’" by Andrew Perez, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2014.

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• The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

  Daniel Pfeiffer

  Team, Media, White

  "Interview: White House’s Dan Pfeiffer on How Twitter Pressured Congress to Act on Debt Ceiling Bill". Interview with Shira Lazar, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• Considering that future generations will be far better off than current generations even after accounting for climate change, it would be more equitable for today's industrialized world to help solve the real problems facing today's poorer developing world than to mitigate climate change now to help reduce the burden on future populations that would not only be wealthier but also technologically superior.

  Indur M. Goklany

  Real, World, Today

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• In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Spring, Blow

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I think the best way to control a population is to urbanize and to educate women. We have seen historically in many, many countries that once women are educated and have opportunities, and that happens when they live in cities and once they improve their economies, they no longer want to have eight kids.

  Ian Bremmer

  Country, Kids, Opportunity

  Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I think it's just been a core part of the Cuban revolution to have a very high level of internationalism. I mean, these cases you've mentioned are cases in point, but the most extreme case was the liberation of Africa. Take the case of Angola for example, and there are real connections between Cuba and Angola-much of the Cuban population comes from Angola.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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