"If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic."
-Albert Ellis
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"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.“
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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."
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"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."
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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."
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"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
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