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‘We cannot go on giving you health, freedom, enlargement, limitless wealth, if all our gifts to you are to be swamped by an indiscriminate torrent of progeny,’ he complained, ‘... and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us.’
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To change it from a biological quirk to world-peace inducing would take some genetic tweaking to increase the amount of both the CO2 the bacteria ingest and of the octane they emit.
Material World: Alternative Energy Tracy Staedter 2009
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To change it from a biological quirk to world-peace inducing would take some genetic tweaking to increase the amount of both the CO2 the bacteria ingest and of the octane they emit.
Material World: CO2 into Fuel? Eric Bland 2008
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Last week the maharishi declared that he's tired of waiting for governments to get on the world-peace wagon.
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It may be that this is as far as it is possible to go in the direction of securing world-peace and international co-operation in the early future.
The Unity of Civilization Various
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His reign was marked by a world-peace, and the peace, the wealth, the liberality of Frodi became proverbial.
The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 L. Winifred Faraday
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Of "Christian legends" and beliefs, besides the euhemerist theory, widely held, of the heathen gods there are few hints, save the idea that Christ was born in the reign of Frode, Frode having been somehow synchronised with Augustus, in whose reign also there was a world-peace.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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Such will be the theme of many writers when the smoke has lifted and the peoples of this earth again repose in the embrace of world-peace.
Over the Top With the Third Australian Division G. P. Cuttriss
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My object here is neither to propose plans nor to discuss details, but merely to point out that not the abandonment, but the systematization of violence is the goal of a rational peace propaganda, and that when this is once acknowledged and universally realized, an important step will have been taken toward winning over a class of persons who now oppose a world-peace as impractical and impossible.
A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick
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Moreover, regarded as a means of securing world-peace and disarmament, all such proposals appear defective in that they make no provision for disputes between one or more of the signatory states and outside states which are no parties to the arrangement.
The Unity of Civilization Various
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