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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I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.
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I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
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For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.
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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
