Famous quotes containing the words buying and/or power:
“Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.”
—Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834)