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Book: The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
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  1. Tahir Shah _ The Caliph's House: A Year in

    Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
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  2. Tahir Shah _ The Caliph's House: A Year in

    Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!
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  3. Tahir Shah _ The Caliph's House: A Year in

    Morocco, the lack of safety was an energizing force, but at the same time it was a constant concern. I had seen more accidents than I could count: car wrecks with people half dead lying on the ground, building sites where workmen had tumbled from scaffolding, children maimed by fireworks on a Sunday afternoon. For the first time in my life I became completely alert. In the West, you can drift from day to day in the knowledge that the society will protect you and your children.
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  4. Tahir Shah _ The Caliph's House: A Year in

    Two reeds drink from the same stream. One is hollow, the other is sugarcane. -MOROCCAN PROVERB
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  5. Tahir Shah _ The Caliph's House: A Year in

    As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.
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  6. Tahir Shah _ The Caliph's House: A Year in

    In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.
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  7. Tahir Shah _ The Caliph's House: A Year in

    Moroccan traffic isn't like normal traffic. It's armed combat, a war of wills, in which only the very bravest have a chance to survive.
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  8. Tahir Shah _ The Caliph's House: A Year in

    In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt -- if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful.
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  9. Tahir Shah _ The Caliph's House: A Year in

    We may yearn for rustic detail and old-world charm, but those who have it set their minds on vinyl wallpaper, fitted carpets and all mod cons."
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  10. Tahir Shah _ The Caliph's House: A Year in

    The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.
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