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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

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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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Simla
Arkon Daraul
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Sorry
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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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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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