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Men Quotes by Ivan Illich
- Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
- To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.
- In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems…
- There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God
- The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of…
- Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
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