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The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. – Ivan Illich

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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isnt organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. – Ivan Illich

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Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying… Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. – Ivan Illich

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Although as a sailor I despised politics – for I loved my sailors life and still love it today – conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. – Fritz Sauckel

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I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites. – Tony Hillerman

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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. – Guillermo del Toro

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I hope the millions of people Ive touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. – Michael Jordan

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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Happiness doesnt depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. – Dale Carnegie

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I dont get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe. – Morgan Freeman

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