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Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for natural methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.
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