"The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient."

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Source : Medical Nemesis

Ivan Illich

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“I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I feel like I've come off as an outspoken woman. Sometimes I think I've come off as confrontational. But I feel like it's been pretty fair. Those are parts of me.”
“Money can be translated into the beauty of living.”

Source : Sylvia Porter (1976). “Money”
“When you travel so much, the best and most relaxing thing is to just sit on the couch and not move.”
“A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.”
“I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.”
“Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

Source : Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2010). “Wild Ride”, p.187, Macmillan
“I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.”

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