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"I think anger is a secondary event. I am going to review something that has been going on in Philadelphia where I am the world fellow in residence in four universities and I have a lot to do with the University of Pennsylvania in particular. The head of the University of Pennsylvania Museum–ex-Senator Clark–asked if I would be in a program they were running for the Bicentennial, called ‘War and Peace.’ They had a number of seminars inviting very important people from around the world on the phenomenon aggression and they brought together those of the highest reputation… of any knowledge at all on behaviorism and aggression in the biological species.
“I summarized the last meeting we had in Philadelphia and apparently–to the satisfaction of all those participating–I point out that as even humans, we have 30 days that we can go without food; we can go without water for only about a week; and we can go without air for not more than two minutes. If it is available to human beings they will consume two pounds of dry food a day, about five pounds of water, and seven pounds of oxygen extracted from 54 pounds”
