Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point. (Steven Pinker)

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

Steven Pinker

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