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"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Ideal, Principle, Agreement, Stagnation, Change

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"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."

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