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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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"This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."

"I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification."

"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment."

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."
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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."

"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."

"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."

"I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them."

"I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs."

"Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse."

"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."
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