Helen Fisher Quotes

Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.

Helen Fisher

Recitation: by Male by Female

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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'

Jill McCorkle

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We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

Joel C. Rosenberg

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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

John Cotton Dana

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In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.

Amor Towles

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I tell my writing students that everything is material; just pay attention.

Tony Earley

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I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

Jose Gonzalez

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One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Dian Fossey

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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Derrick Jensen

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The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.

Donald E. Graham

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I cut grass, I did yard work, I did roofing, I cleaned basements to take care of my family.

Chris Gardner

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All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone else's.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.

Ciaran Hinds

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