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Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

Daniel Goleman

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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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Journalist
Psychologist
Researcher
Writer
Chinatown
Stockton
Empathy
Economic
Impossible
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May
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