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Action Quote by Ivan Illich

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“The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.”

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The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

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To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.

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