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Author, armchair theorist, and poet, Sascha Benjamin Cohen is equipped with a Master's Degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas, and is not afraid to use it. During daylight hours he is the Director of Technology Strategy and Development for the UCSF School of Medicine, and Strategic Director for the Ilios Project, an open source curriculum management platform and community for the health professions. His work has been published by the University Press of America, Edwin Mellen Press, University of Texas Press, and a variety of small journals nationwide.

Along with his writing, photography, and general roustabout activities, he also is the proprietor of 3141 Pies, an artisanal bakery in San Francisco, and an avid homebre ...more

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	The Un-Realized YOU it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words
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― Naomi Shihab Nye, Words Under the Words: Selected Poems

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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“We are right to be rational and to try to increase our production and so keep manufacturing costs down. But we are also right to cherish those very imperfections we are endeavouring to eliminate. Social life consists in destroying that which gives it its savour.”
― Levi-Strauss, Claude

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