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This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.

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.

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that's exactly what happened.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

Those who act on excitement act intermittently; this is hardly the way to avoid regression. Those whose understanding comes from emotional perceptions are as confused as they are enlightened; this is not a lamp that is constantly bright.

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

I used to love writing in my journal.

I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.