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Men and women are like two feet they can help each other get ahead.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
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There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.
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You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.
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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
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There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
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Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
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