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"I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist."
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"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."
"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."
"We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say."
"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."
"Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness."
"Often a woman that doesn't have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can't. It's either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield."
"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."
"Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless."
"Research has shown that smiling releases endorphins-the happy hormones that shift your physiology for improved well-being. When you smile and your eyes crinkle, your body releases chemicals that change the chemistry of your brain, lifting spirits, and reducing pain. Even when it is hard to smile and you are forcing it, positive changes take place in your physiology."
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"I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition."
"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."
"By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed."
"Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years."
"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."
"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."
"I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame."
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