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Quote by Ivan Illich
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. - Ivan Illich

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. – Ivan Illich

Other quotes by Ivan Illich

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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Attitude
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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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I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie Death Wish, but for the end of all human life. – John Hodgman

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Death

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. – Robert Falcon Scott

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Death

To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it. – C.G. Jung

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Death

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. – Sting

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Death

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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. – Socrates

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Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. – Jerome K. Jerome

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I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues. – Mike Tyson

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Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion. – Ernest Istook

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