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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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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing Famished Road, which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it. – Ben Okri

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Change
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Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible. – Ben Okri

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Politics
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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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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. – Jean Rostand

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Future

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect so why bother. – Tre Cool

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Future

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully. – Thomas Starr King

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Future

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether well rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually. – Joshua Foer

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Future

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I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, cause they were cooler they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had! – John Hughes

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To go too far is as bad as to fall short. – Confucius

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Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. – John Kasich

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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. – Richard Le Gallienne

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