Leah Hager Cohen Quotes

• There is nowhere morning does not go.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Morning, Doe

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• The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

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  Knowing, Kind, Ability

  Leah Hager Cohen (2013). “I don't know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance (Except When You Shouldn't)”, p.25, Penguin

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• People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

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  Cheating, Ignorance, People

  Leah Hager Cohen (2013). “I don't know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance (Except When You Shouldn't)”, p.9, Penguin

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• For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

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  Imagination, Trying, Tools

  Leah Hager Cohen (2014). “No Book but the World: A Novel”, p.180, Penguin

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• La verdad más allá del espejismo del fetiche es la relación entre el trabajador y el producto; es el relato social de cómo surgió ese objeto. Desde este punto de vista, toda mercancía, bajo el manto de su etiqueta de precio, es un jeroglífico listo para ser descifrado, un enigma cuya solución reside en la historia del trabajador que lo fabricó y en las condiciones en que se hizo.

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  Lying, Views, Stories

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• Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

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  Hurt, Loss, Challenges

  Leah Hager Cohen (2003). “Heart, You Bully, You Punk”, Viking Press

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• In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

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  Gossip, Long, Community

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• Who could ever tell a story complete?

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  Historias

  Leah Hager Cohen (2014). “No Book but the World: A Novel”, p.91, Penguin

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• Cada vez se presiona más a los estudiantes para que se sometan a más exámenes, reduciéndolos a filas y filas de números enteros negros sobre un expediente académico, listos para pasar directamente a un ordenador.

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  Black, Tests, Pressure

  Leah Hager Cohen (2003). “Heart, You Bully, You Punk”, Viking Press

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• The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life not lived in truth,' Berg writes, 'is a life forfeited.' In this latest work, Elizabeth Berg has poured her own great gifts and her own great heart into the story of a woman determined to refuse any such forfeiture, no matter the cost.

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  Dream, Writing, Heart

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• The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

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  Ironic, Use, Born

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• Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.

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  Communication, Successful, Yawning

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• Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in the spirit of opening ourselves up to hearing, to learning, to receiving. When we say "I don't know" under these conditions, the words can forge connection, healing, growth. But when we resist or disavow knowledge, when we profess ignorance as a way of donning armor and evading accountability, then we make a mockery of those words, and we rupture connections not only with others but within ourselves, within our souls.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Healing, Ignorance, Accountability

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