Wole Soyinka Quotes
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
Garry Kasparov -
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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When all else fails, fresh tactics!
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I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to read, but as a writer I think of [George Saunders] as, in fact, not a fun and freewheeling type but really an obsessive control artist.
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I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
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I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.
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One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.
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Wow, how can you lose a ball game like that. I just don't understand sometimes the capabilities of this team to disappoint.
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1914...Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's...that the 'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency.
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...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer.
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We've had such robust economic indicators over the past few months that today's report was really regarded as a sign of relief.
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Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.
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Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.
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Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
