Wole Soyinka Quotes
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.
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...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.
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The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
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When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.
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You get from the world what you give to the world.
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One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
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Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Respectable people... What bastards!
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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Classic grooming behavior, Dr. Walid told me later, something our fellow primates indulge in to maintain troop cohesion. Dr. Walid said human beings use language for the same purpose—which is why you find yourself talking total bollocks to people you meet at a bus stop and then wonder what the fuck did I do that for?
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Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
