Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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My dream was always to win a grand slam, and my second dream was to be No. 1.
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When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss, you're like, 'Eh.'
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I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.
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I love to sing. Mostly about love and sex.
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I get a sparkle in my eye when we talk about redoing a property soup-to-nuts.
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Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent
