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Ivan Illich
“It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.”
Ivan Illich

Chris Hedges
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”
Chris Hedges

U.G. Krishnamurti
“The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.”
U.G. Krishnamurti, No Way Out
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Frank Zappa
“who are the brain police?”
Frank Zappa

Robert A. Johnson
“Modern western man has some basic misconceptions about the nature of happiness. The origin of the word is instructive: happiness stems from the root verb to happen, which implies that our happiness is what happens.”
Robert A. Johnson, He: Understanding Masculine Psychology

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