"People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all."

-- Idries Shah

#People Quotes #Needs Quotes #Information Quotes

“When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.”
“The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence.”
“I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read.”
“The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.”
“The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.”
“We kind of write pop songs, but we don't fit in the pop world. We're really bad at being pop stars and walking down red carpets. We've got our own little bubble, which we really like. We've learned to really like that.”

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“After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.”
“There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.”

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