Famous quotes containing the words general, population and/or prefer:
“Through the particular, in wartime, I felt the high-voltage current of the general pass.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.”
—Jean Rostand (18941977)
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