Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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The ultimate comfort zone is within.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.
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Death is the ultimate negative.
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The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.
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Youth is the ultimate limited resource.
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Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.
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The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.
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To rule yourself is the ultimate power
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God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.
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Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.
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I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.
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Don’t trade the ultimate for the immediate. Don’t settle for less, wait for God’s best.
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To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.
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... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.
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Visualize your ultimate goal and then do the work to make it happen.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
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Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one part of the total tax system. There are sales taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, unemployment taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes - and when you add up all of those taxes [many of which are quite regressive], and then you look at how they affect the rich and the poor, you essentially end up with a system in which the best off 20 percent of Americans pay one percentage point more of their income than the worst off 20 percent of Americans.
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The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
