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The public school has become the established church of secular soc

The public school has become the established church of secular society. – Ivan Illich

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The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient. – 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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If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not. – James Baldwin

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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. – Barbara Kingsolver

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I dont think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think its a choice, but in fact, its in ones nature. The choice is whether one expresses ones nature truthfully or spends the rest of ones life lying about it. – Marlo Thomas

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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. – Karen Armstrong

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