"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert."
-Albert Ellis
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"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.“
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"If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic."
-Albert Ellis
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"I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public."
-Albert Ellis
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"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."
-Albert Ellis
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"As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing."
-Albert Ellis
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"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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