Idries Shah Quotes
Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.
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Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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Art means to dare - and to have been right.
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Things past recoveryAre hardly cured with exclamations.
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Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
