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"Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic."
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"Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school."
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"Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10."
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"High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible."
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"The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second."
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"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."
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"Grub first, then ethics."
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Personal Development
"Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic."
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"I've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind."
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"Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood."
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"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."
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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
Observation
"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."
Philosophy
"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."
Philosophy
"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."
Truth
"The self is the only thing you can ever truly know."
Self
"Everything depends on the right perspective."
Wisdom
"To comprehend the world around you, first, comprehend yourself."
Growth
"To understand, one must first question everything."
Knowledge
"The real challenge is to develop the capacity to see the world as it really is."
Philosophy
"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."
Generosity
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