Idries Shah Quotes
One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
Idries Shah
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
Barbara Boxer
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
Nalo Hopkinson
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
Pat Metheny
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By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
Osman Rashid
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
Hanoi Hannah
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I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
Pastor Maldonado
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
Barbara Cooney
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
Irina Shayk
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The more I learn, the less I realize I know.
Socrates
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Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
Solon
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Over the years since then though, I couldn't even begin to try and count all the mistakes I've made but also, all the joys I've found while traveling on the road. So in living this kind of lifestyle day in and day out for that many years you learn. You learn a lot about yourself. You learn a lot about how people should be treated and how they should treat each other. For the most part, I've really learned patience, temperament and fairness all around.
Chuck Ragan
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Je savais que le bien comme le mal est affaire de routine, que le temporaire se prolonge, que l'extérieur s'infiltre au dedans, et que le masque, à la longue, devient visage.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
Idries Shah
