"Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state."

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Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.127, University of Michigan Press

Thomas Malthus

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“I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.”
“There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.”
“Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined. But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black.”
“You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.”
“Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.”
“Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.”
“About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.”
“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.”

Source : Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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