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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Idries Shah

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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
Author
Collector Of Fairy Tales
Teacher
Writer
Simla
Arkon Daraul
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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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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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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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To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
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