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We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.

Ben Okri

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.
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Discovery Dream Exemptarty Stone Thing
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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Hungry Rivers World
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.
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Absolutely Reader Writing
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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Create Eventually Make People
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Fighting People Share
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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Attention Common Magic
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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Agreement Important Writing
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories

We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.

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We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.

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