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Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.
Karl Marx
2.
Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
Amartya Sen
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On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in converting irregular periods to normal, regular ones. And in six of seven women with excessive flow, normal flow was established.
Broda Otto Barnes
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Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.
Albert Howard
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Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.
Masanobu Fukuoka
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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
Germaine Greer
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The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
E. B. White
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Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity be many times as numerous as those which prove well founded.
William Stanley Jevons
10.
We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.
Margaret Sanger
11.
From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in any woman with a menstrual abnormality or a reproductive problem. It was generally agree that correction of thyroid deficiency solved many such abnormalities and problems - until about 1940.
Broda Otto Barnes
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A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.
Epicurus
13.
An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate.
Steven Pinker
14.
China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.
Amartya Sen
15.
Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures.
Cindy Margolis
16.
Many of the women who benefited from thyroid therapy provided added evidence that it was the thyroid which was responsible. There were the women who, upon being relieved of their {menstrual} problems, stopped taking medication only to return in a few months with their original complaints. Thyroid therapy again overcame their difficulties.
Broda Otto Barnes
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Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
18.
There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.
Quentin S. Crisp
19.
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
Margaret Atwood
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
Baron de Montesquieu
21.
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.
Germaine Greer