Wole Soyinka Quotes

When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.

Wole Soyinka

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• In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

  

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• I give the children education.

  

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• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

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• That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

  

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• Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.

  

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• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  

  Samantha Power
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• Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• A U.S. war with Iran could end with a Kurdish enclave in Iran's northwest tied to Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran's Azeri north drifting toward Azerbaijan, and a Balochi enclave in the south linked to Pakistan's largest province, Balochistan, leaving Iran only Persia.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

  

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• If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.

  

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• When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.

  

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• My birthmark essentially looks like I have a black eye. It isn't that bad, so you can imagine if it has been this big a part of my life, think of what it must be like for children with more serious birthmarks that cover half their face.

  

  Hannah Storm
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• War will exist as long as there's a food chain.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• When we’ve agreed that something ought to be done, or not done, we get very stubborn. And when that meets up with another stubbornness, it can make a kind of war, a struggle of ideas, the only kind of war anybody ever wins.

  

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• Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

  

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• Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

  

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• There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved.

  

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• There's a very long and consistent track record on the part of Hillary Clinton, and it's not been favorable to women, to children, to the cause of peace, justice, and a sustainable climate.

  

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• To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

  

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• The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

  

  Ben Nicholson
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• Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

  

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• When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Children
  • War
  • Transformation