Idries Shah Quotes
A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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The only thing that saved that man that night was I didn't have mine. That was it. Bottom line. I just slipped that night. But I won't ever slip again.
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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Beware of politicians who tell you they'll do all these wonderful things for you for only a small tax increase. Those tax increases are never as small as you might imagine, and the benefits are always smaller than promised and/or imagined.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
