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Empathy Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's…
- Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
- Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
- Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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- Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. — Diane Ackerman
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