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• 1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

  Ron Perlman

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• It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

  Steven Pinker

  Fighting, Men, Numbers

  "A History of Violence" by Steven Pinker, newrepublic.com. March 19, 2007.

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• I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Thinking, People, Century

  "Queen Rania to Fareed Zakaria:" We need to build channels of communication"". Interview with Fareed Zakaria, www.queenrania.jo. September 01, 2008.

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• We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

  Charles Rangel

  Office, People, Community

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• My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

  Satyajit Ray

  Class, Play, Cities

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

  Helen Reddy

  Baby, People, Being Ignored

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• Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Sports, Humor

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• By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Home, School, Cities

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  President, Employment, Language

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• The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

  Salman Rushdie

  India, Secular

  "How to Understand Kashmir and Survive the Jihadis: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2009.

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• Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Average, Europe

  "Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

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• I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Nice, Government, America

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• With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.

  Howard Schultz

  Strong, Opportunity, Class

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• These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.

  William Shatner

  Country, People, Dresses

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• The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

  Simon Sinek

  Curves, People, World

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• When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, School, College

  "Work Together: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Worry, Democracy

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• Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

  Thomas Sowell

  Moving, America, Political

  "The 25 Best Quotes From Thomas Sowell". townhall.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

  Gertrude Stein

  Way, Forget, Propaganda

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1957). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Alphabets and birthdays”

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• It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Projects, Whole

  "Wars I Have Seen". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1945.

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• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Forever, Arms, Dictator

  "Fictional character: Citizen G'Kar". Babylon 5 (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1994-1998.

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• With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

  David Suzuki

  Technology, Impact, Negative

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• Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Kings, Views, Together

  Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.cnbc.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Country, Growth, Saudi Arabia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

  Serj Tankian

  Believe, Civilization, Psychology

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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