"Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs."

-- Richard Bentall

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“I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.”
“A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are.Â If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.”
“I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.”
“A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.”

Source : Lester B. Pearson (1974). “Mike: the memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson”, Crown
“One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.”
“I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.”
“Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone.”

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