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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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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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.
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