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"Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity"

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“I now bear away with me, O my God, all that I have received, the wind and the wisdom of al...”

Ian McEwan

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“Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity”

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