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The public school has become the established church of secular society. – 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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diet
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Ivan Illich
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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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Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid its also in the system, the society. – James Hillman

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Society

Even if one is interested only in ones own society, which is ones prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others. – Peter L. Berger

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Society

Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself. – Margaret Atwood

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Society

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if – to quote Professor Higgins – a woman could be more like a man. – Julie Burchill

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Society

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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Therefore, dont let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself. – Elias Hicks

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. – Angela Carter

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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him. – Proverb

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Poverty