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Being genuinely useful requires a willingness to risk offending people.

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  1. Nat Eliason

    Writer and novelist

    An idea I'm trying to hold tighter is that the only way to be useful here is to risk offending people. And perhaps if you're not taking any risk offending people then it's unlikely you're saying something useful.

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