Wole Soyinka Quotes
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Wole Soyinka
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The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.
Octavio Paz
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People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.
Gabrielle Zevin
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An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other side of the world?
Gabriel Iglesias
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I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
Marlo Thomas
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
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Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.
Walpola Rahula
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Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
Plutarch
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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
Hilary Mantel
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Wole Soyinka
