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title: "2 Called Empathy Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“My power is that I can always tell when someone is unhappy, even if that person is pretending to be happy and is a really good actor. The bad thing about my power is that I always try to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charise-mericle-harper/my-power-is-that-i-can-always-tell-when-someone-is-unhappy-even-if/)

[Charise Mericle Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charise-mericle-harper/)

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> [My book is going to be called Against Empathy, which may give you a feeling for where my argument is going to go. Whenever I talk about this, I have to begin in the most boring of all possible ways:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bloom/my-book-is-going-to-be-called-against-empathy-which-may-give-you-a/)

[Paul Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bloom/)

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