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" A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated. "

Oscar Isaac

Seeing

Successful

Empathy

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Play

Place

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Amazing

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