Idries Shah Quotes
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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O, our feeble tests of greatness! Look for one so calm of soul As to take the even chalice of his life and drink the whole. Noble deeds are held in honor, but the wide world sorely needs Hearts of patience to unravel this, - the worth of common deeds.
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Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.
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Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.
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Love is evil, spell it backwards, I’ll show ya.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
