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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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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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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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