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" We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. "

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" After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is. "

" Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry. "

" It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful. "

" Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world. "

" From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator. "

" Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give, receive and share this primordial symbol of a budding partnership. "

" Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. "

" A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars. "

" We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly. "

" People kill for love. They die for love. "

" You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it. "

" You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with. "

" I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity. "

" It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer. "

" Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it. "

" Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets. "

" We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us. "

" Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. "

" Your face and head give more information about you than any other body part. "

" Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. "

" The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted. "

" 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. "

" There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love. "

" Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people. "

" People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. "

" Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed. "

" The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug. "

" My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed. "

" A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained. "