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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist

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"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons"

- Russell Banks

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This quote is written / told by Russell Banks somewhere between March 28, 1940 and today. He/she was a famous Author from USA. The author also have 26 other quotes.

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