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Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
Ivan Illich
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Ivan Illich
Age: 76 †
Born: 1926
Born: September 4
Died: 2002
Died: December 2
Anthropologist
Catholic Priest
Historian
Literary Critic
Pedagogue
Philosopher
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Vienna
Austria
Ivan D. Illich
Ivan Dominic Illich
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The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God
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