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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

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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
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Simla
Arkon Daraul
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If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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