"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second."

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Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.5, University of Michigan Press

Thomas Malthus

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“That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.”
“Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 18, 2012
“Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.”
“Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.”
“Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.”
“To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.”
“Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.”

Source : James E. Talmage (2012). “Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, p.350, Lulu.com

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