Quote by Ivan Illich
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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Health
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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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The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care. – Jim Fowler

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One needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate. – Danish Proverb

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You cant study comedy its within you. Its a personality. My humor is an attitude. – Don Rickles

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I mean, the shoe – there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, its a movement. Clothes – its a different story. There are a million things Id rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping. – Christian Louboutin

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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. – Pietro Aretino

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