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Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it. -- Christian de Duve
Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries. -- Anthony Lewis
They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession. -- Louise Jameson
Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention. -- Tamra Davis
Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London. -- Noel Gallagher
The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups. -- Sean Parker
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. -- Stephen Hawking
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further. -- Zach Wamp
Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them. -- Fannie Hurst
Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city. -- David Hewson
When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions. -- Rosemary Mahoney
Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room. -- Colm Toibin
You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools. -- Robert Hass
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves. -- Simon Mawer
No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story. -- P. T. Barnum
I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded. -- Lloyd Alexander
Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment. -- Alec-Tweedie
The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand? -- Marvin Gaye
A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. -- Edward Abbey
Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out. -- Terry McMillan
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left. -- David Nicholls
On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion? -- Thomas French
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate. -- Anais Nin

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