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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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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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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When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other.
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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
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When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
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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.
