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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The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics.” Math is a way to describe reality and figure out how the world works, a universal language that has become the gold standard of truth. In our world, increasingly driven by science and technology, mathematics is becoming, ever more, the source of power, wealth, and progress. Hence those who are fluent in this new language will be on the cutting edge of progress.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.
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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
