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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She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
W. L. George
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
Samira Wiley
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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.
Bayard Taylor
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...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
Flannery O'Connor
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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.
Al Pacino
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.
Oprah Winfrey
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You get from the world what you give to the world.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
E. O. Wilson
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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.
Barack Obama
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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
