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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.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
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Helen E Fisher
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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.
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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
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People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
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