{"quotes":[{"text":"The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct, Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["breed","breeding","civilization","eugenics","government","instinct","marriage","mating","nature","past","pity","prediction","progeny","race"],"id":2725,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"Oh, no, nope, shoot. Are we about to human mate?","author":"Jackson Lanzing","tags":["alien","drunk","human","joyride","kolstak","mating","mating-habits"],"id":7688,"author_id":"Jackson+Lanzing"},{"text":"We want to look desirable. We want others to want to mate with us. No different than a colorful peacock. When girls dress up for their night out at the club, they are doing what all animals do when they try to make themselves desirable for a potential mate. That's the whole point behind the fashion, perfume, cosmetics, diet, and plastic surgery industries.","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["beauty","beauty-standards","clubbing","cosmetic-surgery","cosmetics","diet","diet-industry","dieting","dieting-humor","fashion","fashion-industry","fashion","girls","girls-night","mating","mating-ritual","men-and-women","perfume","perfume","plastic-surgery","women","women-and-men"],"id":109563,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"},{"text":"I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so.'It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["attraction","brains","evolution","humor","intelligence","love","marriage","mating","stupidity"],"id":184995,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.","author":"Julie Murphy","tags":["birds","children-s-books","courtship","frigate-bird","mating","nature","wildlife"],"id":189024,"author_id":"Julie+Murphy"},{"text":"In the beginning of our love lives, it is the beastly instinct of sexual attraction that drives us all. The butterflies in your stomach simply signal your mind that the person in front of you would make a fantastic mate to make babies with. Without this primeval drive, you won’t ever fall for anyone in your entire lifetime. The very attraction you feel towards a person in a romantic way, is a mental manifestation of a subconscious desire to mate with that person.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","falling-in-love","falling-in-love","human-behavior","human-nature","life","life","love","love","mating","mating-couple","pearls-of-wisdom","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-psyche","primitive-urges","relationship","relationship","romance","science-of-mind","science","truth"],"id":276923,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"It was a mating dance only slightly more dignified than presenting like a mandrill, but endearing in its own fashion.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["fashion","mandrill","mating","mating-dance"],"id":295424,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity of electrical storm activity. Too much lightning activity may cause excessive mating, aggression, fatigue, illness and disease to occur. Too little may turn off the animal and plant breeding cycles.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["activity","aggression","air","animal","breed","breeding","cause","causes","change","change-life","change-the-world","changes","climate","climate-change","climate-crisis","cycle","cycle-of-life","cycles","disease","electric","electrical","electricidad","electricity","excessive","fatigue","frequency","global-awakening","global-warming","illness","intensity","lightning","lightning-bolt","lightning-strike","little","mate","mating","much","occur","plant","plant-life","plants","pollution","problem","problems","problems-in-life","problems-in-the-world","problems","storm","storms","storms-of-life","stormy","too","too-much","warming"],"id":337629,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"He held up his index finger. 'Rule one: in any dispute between mates, themale is always to blame, even when he is clearly blameless. Rule two'—his middle finger joined thefirst—'whenever in doubt, refer to rule one.","author":"C.L. Wilson","tags":["humor","marriage","mating"],"id":379502,"author_id":"C.L.+Wilson"},{"text":"We like to romanticize the wild, raw, majestic beauty of nature. But when you take a closer look, nature is really just a giant fuckfest. That beautiful bird chirping? It's a mating call. That pretty little bird is trying to get laid. And why does the peacock have such beautiful feathers? To attract females. Because he's trying to get laid.","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["animals","animals-mating","beauty","beauty-in-nature","beauty-of-life","beauty-of-nature","birds","birdsong","fuck","fucking","funny","funny-but-true","funny","mating","mating-call","mating-rituals","nature","nature-of-man","nature","nature-s-beauty","peacocks","wilderness","wildlife"],"id":403663,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}