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Ivan Illich Quotes

Tools can rule men sooner than they expect; the plow makes man the lord of the garden but also the refugee from the dust bowl.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Men Man Tools Garden Dust Expect

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.

Friend Song Story Explain Theme

It's good to let go of control. That's probably something all artists and song writers will say at some point.

Good Control Song Go Say Will

I'm a news anchor; I'm not an ideologue.

Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'

John Mellencamp

Music Great Culture Growing Up Okay

Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.

Me Emergency Weekends Bother After

Government policies and regulations in the postcrisis era have aided the hollowing-out of middle America far more than anything the private sector has done. These changes even expanded the wealth gap by making asset owners richer at the expense of renters.

Government America Wealth Done More

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

Water Wrong Go Sugar Nothing Bubble

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.

Style Writing You Bad Why Newspaper

I'm used to being the main goal scorer, but I also always like to help.

Help Goal Always Used Being Like

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.

Crazy You Know Glue Fairy Point

I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.

Cornelia Parker

Trying Go Through Artists Dip Tend

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

Parenting Book Write Out Set

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