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In Dale Carnegie's book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie recounts from his correspondence with Lewis Lawes, who was warden of New York's Sing Sing prison for many years. Lawes declared that:
"Few of the criminals in Sing Sing regard themselves as bad men. They are just as human as you and I. So they rationalize, they explain. They can tell you why they had to crack a safe or be quick on the trigger finger. Most of them attempt by a form of reasoning, fallacious or logical, to justify their antisocial acts even to themselves, consequently stoutly maintaining that they should never have been imprisoned at all."
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