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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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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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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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