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He must thrust aside the unsatisfactory common habits--often unconscious but sometimes wilful ones--of overlooking mistakes, exaggerating difficulties, evading problems, excusing selfishnesses, explaining away failures, rationalizing evil conduct by shifting responsibility for his own shortcomings through blaming other people.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 1 : Situation > # 206