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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
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Arkon Daraul
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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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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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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the veils which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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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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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 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 laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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