“The percent likelihood of a society being physically violent if it is physically affectionate toward its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent”

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"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

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American psychologist 1930

James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist

"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

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It is learned behavior toward persons with
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“Those societies which give their infants the greatest amount of physical affection were characterized by low theft, low infant physical pain, low religious activity, and negligible or absent killing, mutilating, or torturing of the enemy.”

James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist

"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

“The detrimental effects of infant physical affectional deprivation seem to be compensated for later in life by sexual body pleasure experiences during adolescence.”

James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist

"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

“It seems to me that the German people can - pointedly - tolerate 5 percent price increase better than 5 percent unemployment.”

Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015) Chancellor of West Germany 1974-1982

Interview with Helmut Schmidt on the 27. July 1972 in Bonn, partly printed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of 28. July 1972 (nr. 171), p. 8

“I see why CBP officers were being so physically and sexually threatening towards me… Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets. This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.”

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“The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.”

Peter Guthrie Tait (1831–1901) British mathematician

in Note on a Quaternion Transformation , Communication read on Monday, 6th April, 1863, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1866), p. 117.

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Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer

Hughey, Aaron W. (book reviewer), "Book review: ‘Quiet’ suggests introverts are undervalued by society," The Daily News (Kentucky; BGDailyNews.com), July 15, 2012.

“One, the people in charge wanting to give up control. This tends to eliminate some 80 percent of businesspeople. Two, a profound belief that humankind will work toward its best version, given freedom; that would eliminate the other 20 percent.”

Ricardo Semler (1959) Brazilian businessman

Strategy+business: "Ricardo Semler Won't Take Control" https://www.strategy-business.com/article/05408?gko=3291c (29 November 2005)

“For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

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