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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
Idries Shah
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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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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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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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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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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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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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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
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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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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