Idries Shah Quotes
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah
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I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
Rand Paul
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I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.
Forest Whitaker
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
Gabrielle Reece
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We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
Naomi Wolf
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain
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Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently.
Albert Bandura
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The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.
Michelle Alexander
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The American empire should be destroyed.
Aleksandr Dugin
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah