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Ivan Illich Quotes

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 4, 1926 - December 2, 2002

Topics

Health Care Discovery Health Care

I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.

Work Truth Responsibility Think Some

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Work Morning Happy Be Happy Luxury

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

Weather Friends Find I Can Too Much

In the ideal scenario, consultants work for a board, and they're helping the board check on certain aspects of management. Their work is made public and transparent.

Matthew Stewart

Work Management Check Transparent

I personally am very active with the women's prison association, and I designed a locket, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to the women's prison association.

Women Prison Go Active Association

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

Three Say Need Always Days Break

I've been to Mongolia, Peru, Argentina, India.

India Argentina Peru Been

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.

Time Shoes I Am Reading Now Airport

My American undergraduate education probably gave me a better idea of the fundamentals of what European civilization is about, better than the undergraduate education you get at most European universities.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Education Me Better American You

Sometimes we look at patterns, and we look at things that are happening, and sometimes you can't dismiss everything as a conspiracy.

You Look Sometimes Everything Things

You don't need to be an engineer or a tech person to benefit from technology. You can hire them.

Technology You Person Need Hire

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Passion Men Strong Call Been Able

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