Who said 'if you haven't started on the Buddhist path then don't start at all'?
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The book Meditation for Everyone: a 12 Step Guide attributes it -- without any certainty -- to the Dalai Lama.
That's all I found, via a quick Google search.
I guess the attribution is plausible, compare it with this quote for example, and so on.
But "plausible" doesn't mean "true", and that may be only a paraphrase.
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