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All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

Marya Mannes

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
Author
Journalist
War
Compassion
Derive
Another
Difference
Encounters
Accepting
Empathy
Mutuality
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Wars
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Race
Lack
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Nations
Competition
Incapacity
Whether
Sex
Subjection
Understand
Accept
Likeness

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