It is too often not realized that culture itself is an adaptive tool, one of whose main functions is to make the physiological emergencies come less and less often. (Abraham Maslow)

It is too often not realized that culture itself is an adaptive tool, one of whose main functions is to make the physiological emergencies come less and less often.

Abraham Maslow

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