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Been Quotes by Idries Shah
- People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because…
- The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
- If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy…
- There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is…
- The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
- Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
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- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour