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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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