We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, …

Orson Scott Card
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We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then. ✨ Xenocide. Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.
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We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then. ✨ Xenocide. Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

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