Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi Quotes
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A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.
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Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
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In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.
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Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
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I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
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Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
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Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.
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During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.
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Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.
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Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.
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My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.
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Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.
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The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.
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The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.
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These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
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On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.
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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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In India everything has a use and a value.
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To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path
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Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom