"Population, when unchecked, increases in geometrical progression of such a nature as to double itself every twenty-five years." Thomas Robert Malthus
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"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it." William Makepeace Thackeray
"Women are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern."
"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes." Edward Frederick Lindley Wood Halifax
"You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?" Victor Borge
"The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy." William John Bertanzetti
"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz." Oscar Peterson