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I don't plan on digging that stuff up that I've kept down with my feet. Why would I want to dig it all up and examine it like an archaeologist?


Albert Finney

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MARV ALBERT Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
ALBERT CAMUS The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
ALBERT CAMUS The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that...
ALBERT CAMUS A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
ALBERT EINSTEIN No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
ALBERT ELLIS I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more dire...
ALBERT ELLIS There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equa...
ALBERT ELLIS Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about...
ALBERT ELLIS I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that&#...
ALBERT ELLIS I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone lo...
ALBERT ELLIS I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with who...
ALBERT ELLIS People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
ALBERT ELLIS People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and tha...
ALBERT ELLIS People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
ALBERT ELLIS If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
ALBERT ELLIS Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
ALBERT ELLIS I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every c...
ALBERT ELLIS For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
ALBERT ELLIS Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
ALBERT ELLIS There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must ...
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