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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
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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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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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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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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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