David Buss quotes
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“While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love are well traveled and their markers are well understood by many - the mesmerizing attraction, the idealization obsession, the sexual afterglow, the profound self-sacrifice, and the desire to combine DNA. But true love takes its own course through uncharted territory. It knows no fences, eludes modern measurement, and seems scientifically woolly. But I know true love exists. I just can’t prove it.”
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“There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility”
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“Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.”
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“Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition,”
-- David BussSource : "Professor Conducted A Huge Study To Find Out Why People Kill" by Erin Fuchs, www.businessinsider.com. February 17, 2013.
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.
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“The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.”
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