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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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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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Ben Okri
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. – Ben Okri

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inspirational
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Ben Okri
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Im conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. Theres hardly a day that goes past on which I dont write poetry. – Ben Okri

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Poetry
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The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands. – Abdallah II

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Future

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past – except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. – Clifford D. Simak

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Future

I was cast in Thor and Im cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they dont look like me but there you go. I think thats a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think thats good. – Idris Elba

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Future

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. – Peter Drucker

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Future

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God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me. – Thomas Huxley

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Miscellaneous

Nothing in life is promised except death. – Kanye West

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Death

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. – Marlene Dietrich

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Sex

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Poetry