Eric HofferThere would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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The world would be a very different place if people could only get along with each other. There would be no communication, no communication from parents to children, from teachers to students, from friends to friends. The world would be a very different place if people understood one another enough to get along. It’s hard to imagine a world where communication is the problem.
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