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" Every time you cuddle with your children, you're likely to be driving down your testosterone. "
Helen Fisher
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" There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think. "
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" People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy. "
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" Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it shows you're carefree and relaxed. "
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" Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship. "
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" People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. "
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" You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder. "
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" Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship. "
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" Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman. "
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" Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age. "
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" As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world. "
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" You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy. "
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" I think you will find that with divorce will come happier remarriages. "
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" In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow. "
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" Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate. "
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" Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued. "
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" We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes. "
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" Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women. "
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" Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live. "
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