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You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.

You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.

Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern

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Attribution & collection notes
Author or tradition
Idries Shah
Attribution: attributed
Country attributed
Not established
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1924 to 1996; Wikidata Q505466, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505466 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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Recorded source
Contributor-provided quotation collection

Supplied reference C; CSV row 175030; supplied attribution, independently unverified

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