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Poett
poverty
imagination
demeaning
motives
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
Some of the reasons for such activities are sketched in our new book. But what you have is a learned pattern of face-saving self-deception and nefarious (with amusement) techniques, taught by parents to children; so often you pretend to want one thing, and you may say that you “will it” to happen—perhaps because what you really want is unacceptable, or so you have been taught: it is demeaning, or evil, or whatever. So in many cases people’s true motives “escape” them.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
Imagination and will, working together, are miracle-makers, because self-deception does not stand between them.
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