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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Fear
Self
Hindrance
Showing
Biggest
Fool
Learning

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