Idries Shah Quotes
MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
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I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.
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It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.
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Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.
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MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you