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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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Collector Of Fairy Tales
Teacher
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Arkon Daraul
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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