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"It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine."
"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."
"Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble."
"When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'"
"While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive."
Explore more quotes by Idries Shah
"He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge."
"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."
"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."
"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
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