Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an…

Daniel Goleman
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Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. ✨ Daniel Goleman (2011). Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships, p.14, Random House
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