Energy Quote by Helen Fisher

“I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.”

Helen Fisher

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“...if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.”

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