“Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion.” YearsSoulTodayOrderWealthEmotionFiveHundredYears AgoEconomicsInstitutionsAcceptedFortyMatesSoul MateDeep Emotions Book:'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse Source: 'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse
“He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.” PeopleMenYearsHardFactsSeemsTodayHundredYears AgoDestructionInstitutionsFoundationConservativePracticalsShockScareConservatismHeresyProprietyPremonition Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.” IfsWellsPersonsI CanBodyAmericaThreeNamesMy OwnFailingHundredMy FamilyInstitutionsBelovedAbandonPerplexity Author:John James Audubon
“Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.” YearsArtPoliticalValuesSocialKeysHundredTransformationInstitutionsStructureWesternDecadesWorldview Author:Peter Drucker
“Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.” YearsLongTwoWholeTogetherGuyFineHundredShotsBuiltYears AgoInstitutionsWigsTuningLong ShotsFine Tuning Author:Terence McKenna
“On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.” MenGivingYearsMadeYoungThreePathYouthStudentsCollegeTerribleThousandDegreesHundredRiversInstitutionsYoung ManFiftyDriversSixtyFrustratedYoung WomenBostonAlcoholicsDemographicsCollege Years Author:Kim Stanley Robinson