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«Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. Remember the reply of the righteous slave to Moses when he said to him: 'May I follow you so that you can teach me what you know about what is right?' He replied: 'Surely you will not be able to be patient with me. How can you be patient about something which you do not understand?'»
Author: Ali ibn Abi Talib
(Orator, Poet)
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Allah, blessed with, forbidden, general knowledge, glorified, in particular, Moses, replied, reply
«I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.»
«There was an old Man who said, `Hush! / I perceive a young bird in this bush!' / When they said, `Is it small?' / He replied, `Not at all!/ It is four times as big as the bush!'»
«The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'»
«Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?»
«When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we c»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
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Alexander, Alexander the Great, Diogenes, famed, heighten, heightening, heightens, replied, stand out, visited
«`Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on. `I do,' Alice hastily replied; `at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know.'»
«And he said: you pretty full of yourself ain't chu. So she replied: show me someone not full of Herself and I'll show you a hungry person.»
«A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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American elder, anew, behaved, described, elder, expectations, expected, feed, fights, measurement, measurements, native, Native American, peoples, reflected, replied, sensibly, struggles, tailor, tailored, tailoring, The Tailor, wins
«Then I asked: `Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?' He replied: `All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.'»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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ages, firm, mountains, persuasion, persuasions, poets, removed, replied
