Ivan Illich Quotes
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.
Ivan Illich
Quotes to Explore
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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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We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.
William Easterly
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
Wang Jianlin
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
William James
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Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.
Cesar Millan
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The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.
Ivan Illich
