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In India everything has a use and a value.

In India everything has a use and a value.
– Tahir Shah

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  1. Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal. – Tahir Shah
  2. In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it. – Tahir Shah
  3. In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough. – Tahir Shah
  4. Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you. – LH
  5. Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M Scott Peck
  6. If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out. – Bryant McGill
  7. It’s really simple. Sell high-value stuff to people who value high-value stuff. – Richie Norton
  8. Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives. – Tahir Shah
  9. The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there. – Tahir Shah
  10. For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure. – Tahir Shah
  11. [T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. – Tahir Shah
  12. Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent. – Tahir Shah
  13. Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster. – Tahir Shah
  14. Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible. – Tahir Shah
  15. On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust. – Tahir Shah
  16. To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path – Tahir Shah
  17. We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic. – Tahir Shah
  18. Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things. – Tahir Shah
  19. Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship. – Tahir Shah
  20. The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up. – Tahir Shah
  21. On a harsh expedition, there’s no space for anyone who does not intend to finish. – Tahir Shah
  22. There’s nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage. – Tahir Shah
  23. As anyone who’s ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed. – Tahir Shah
  24. I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it. – Tahir Shah
  25. One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene. – Tahir Shah
  26. A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation – Tahir Shah
  27. I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it. – Tahir Shah
  28. I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes. – Tahir Shah
  29. Exploration is a dirty game. – Tahir Shah
  30. The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade. – Tahir Shah
  31. In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense. – Tahir Shah
  32. Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach. – Tahir Shah
  33. The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end. – Tahir Shah
  34. Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage. – Tahir Shah
  35. My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind. – Tahir Shah
  36. For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories. – Tahir Shah
  37. A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it. – Tahir Shah
  38. Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff. – Tahir Shah
  39. Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead. – Tahir Shah
  40. The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs. – Tahir Shah

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