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People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.
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For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?
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Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.
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Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.
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The ability to know one's limitations, to recognize the bounds of one's own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.
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The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.
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Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.
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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast any time'. So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.
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Leah Hager Cohen
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Leah Hager Cohen is an American author who writes both fiction and nonfiction.
Known for:
No Book But the World
Train go sorry
The Grief of Others
Glass, paper, beans
Heart, you bully, you punk
Leah Hager Cohen on Wikipedia
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