A Quote by Aldous Huxley

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
English - Writer
July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

John le Carre

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Ernest Hemingway

The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.

Jonathan Tucker

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

Garrett Hardin

Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

Ramakrishna

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Sigmund Freud

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

Gregory Bateson

When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.

Adrian Younge

I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.

K. Flay

Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

Thomas Hardy

The optimum human population of earth is zero.

David Foreman

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Garrett Hardin

What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water.

Grover Norquist

If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this reason, a demographic cloud hangs over China. It may be the first country to grow old before it grows rich. ... Its fertility rate is below two and its working-age population will start to decline around 2015.

Greg Ip

No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.

Alfred Doblin

In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, “Get back to who you were meant to be.”

Monica Drake

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