Quote by Wole Soyinka
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. – Wole Soyinka

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But when youre deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and its amazing. – Wole Soyinka

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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. – Wole Soyinka

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Truth
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Theres a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which its being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. – Wole Soyinka

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In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support (salary) is a power over his will. – Alexander Hamilton

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It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. – Pierre de Fermat

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It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. Its the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. Thats the power of the gospel. – Ben Harper

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf

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