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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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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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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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"I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them."
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"Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human."
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"I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression."
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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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"I hope to die in the saddle seat."
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"If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic."
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"People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware."
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"Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years."
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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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