Ivan Illich Quotes
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.
Ivan Illich
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
Daniel Ek
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
R. D. Laing
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I want to be sublimely happy.
Frances Bean Cobain
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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.
David Jeremiah
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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
Bill Vaughan
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An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
Albert Einstein
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I'm a really private person. I just love my work. I feel like celebrity has changed so much, in this culture. Ever since they started with those reality shows and people that aren't actors but they're really famous, it's gotten very different from when I started out. So, the idea of ever becoming more than what I had is not really what I want.
Winona Ryder
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
Karen Maitland
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
Queen Latifah
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I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent themselves. I believe the First Edition bookstore will be the next thing. People will read electronically, then decide they want to own that book. The author will then be invited to the old bookstores to sign. I think books will always be with us, but they will fill a different need.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.
Ivan Illich
