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• A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

  Carolus Linnaeus
• Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

  Henry W. Fowler
• It is of interest to inquire what happens when the aviator's speed... approximates to the velocity of light.We are saved the difficulty of imagining how the processes of life can go on in two dimensions, because nothing goes on.The aviator himself detects nothing unusualhe does not perceive that the next instant is a long time coming.

  Arthur Eddington

The antonyms for the term "Middle Class Populations" are "extreme poverty populations" and "wealthy high-class populations." Extreme poverty populations refer to people who suffer ...