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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future com

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. – Ben Okri

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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. – Ben Okri

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Fear
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. – Ben Okri

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Courage
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. – Ben Okri

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Beauty
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Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But thats not the same thing as wisdom. – Joshua Foer

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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. – Jean de la Bruyere

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If we are to better the future we must disturb the present. – Catherine Booth

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Future

The TUCs new slogan a future that works sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model. – Frances OGrady

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