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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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Albert Ellis
Age: 93 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 27
Died: 2007
Died: July 24
Behaviour Therapist
Cognitive Scientist
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Sex Educator
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert - I like that. And seeing clients, doing group therapy, writing books.
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And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.
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I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.
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So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.
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As a matter of fact, 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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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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