"Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk."

Social, Identity, Community, Nature, Instinct

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"Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Social, Journalism, People, Choice, Interest

"Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them."

C. JoyBell C., American Author

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"Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, poor in a society where wealth is adored and sought after at all costs, female in an environment where only large ships and some engines are described favourably by using the female pronoun-how did I get to be Maya Angelou?"

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, its lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone is laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll. like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think anymore. loll. loll! or ttyl. bitch, you're not actually talking. that would require actual vocal contact or <3. you honestly think that looks like a heart? if you do, that's only because you'v never seen scrotum. (rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while i KICK YOUR ASS)"

David Levithan, American Author

Social, Communication, Frustration, Humor, Technology

"It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say."

David Levithan, American Author

Social, Deception, Truth, World, Speech

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Social, Children, Goodness, Happiness, Education

"When two men live together they usually maintain a kind of shabby neatness out of incipient rage at each other. Two men alone are constantly on the verge of fighting, and they know it."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."

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"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"

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"To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them."

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"Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes."

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"The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day."

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"Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't."

"I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary."

"Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people."

"If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them."

"A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems."

"It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say."

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

"When two men live together they usually maintain a kind of shabby neatness out of incipient rage at each other. Two men alone are constantly on the verge of fighting, and they know it."

Explore more quotes by Idries Shah

"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."

"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"

"To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them."

"If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion."

"BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL."

"One should not pray if that prayer is vanity."

"The impatient man is his own enemy, he slams the door on his own progress."

"The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age."

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