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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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People today are in danger of drowning in information but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
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A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
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