"Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per..." - Quote by Confucius
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife
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“When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.”
“If we don't know life, how can we know death?”
“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
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“Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.”
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“An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.”
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