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Quote by Wole Soyinka
Im not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morn

Im not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That Ive never understood. – Wole Soyinka

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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. – Wole Soyinka

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

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power
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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. – Wole Soyinka

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Music
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One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Morning

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal – but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same. – Dan OBrien

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You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome – just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself. – Jean Claude Van Damme

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Morning

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, This is a high-top day or This is a bob day, but when I get my clothes on thats when I see. – Nicki Minaj

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. – Robert Burns

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The Birds Nest National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of fair competition. It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. – Ai Weiwei

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For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good. – William Wordsworth

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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. – Mario Puzo

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