"The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear."

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Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

Emanuel Celler

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“By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.”
“The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.”

Source : Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.119, Penguin
“Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.”
“In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.”

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“Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.”
“A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".”
“[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.”
“To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.”

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