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“I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.” quote by Ruth Ozeki — Download Open image

“I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.”

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