Idries Shah Quotes
To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
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Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
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I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.
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Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
