“Experience seems to come from a distance.”

— Henri Cole

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Gail Tsukiyama (1957) American writer

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Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

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Michael Hopkins

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Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

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Jim Horning (1942–2013) computer scientist

Jim Horning notes: I've often repeated this, but the original source appears to be the great Sufi sage, Mulla Nasrudin.
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Otis Hamilton Lee (1902–1948) American philosopher

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John Steinbeck book The Pearl

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Alan M. Dershowitz (1938) American lawyer, author

Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age, Little, Brown & Company, New York, NY, (2002) p. 4

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