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“For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.”

World Years War Self Focus Stage Survival Definitions Focused Fulfillment War Of The Worlds Transition World War Ii World War I Self Fulfillment

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork - still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.”

“A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.”

Responsibility Stage Survival Threat Abandoned Humankind

Author:Maria Montessori

“Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.”

“Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.”

Science Space Animal Vision Five Stage Products Evolution Survival Hearing Flight Organs Cents Efficiency Smooth Reproduction Believable Trajectory

Book:The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.”

Humans Certain History Stage Produce Materials Survival Institutions Justification Deficit Repression

Book:For Reasons Of State

Source: For Reasons Of State

“Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.”

People Years Teaching Stage Survival Percent Dollars Cancer Billions Cures Versus Ninety Rest Of Your Life Detection Cancer Survival

Author:Yael Cohen

“Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.”

Certain Force Democracy Conditions Stage Depends Development Survival Consequence Mere Productive Development Of Society

Author:Wei Jingsheng