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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Wole Soyinka

Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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Become Ideology Intolerance Reigning Think Today Whole World
My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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Certain Concern Creative Culture Point Process Simply Understanding
The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Constantly Media Public Responsibility Truth
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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Done Face Feel Get Look Lot People Work
Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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Been Mythological Problem State Urgent Use Very World
When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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Culture Encourage Harder Impurity Lost Make Rest Society Us World
I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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Arm Conviction Danger Day Every Know Other Power Threat Wake Way Yield
I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Abide Body Have Human One Religion
Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Continue Illusion Reality Reject Safety Seriously Shadow
I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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Accept Can Either Face Reject Took Violence
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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Convert Creation Degrading Dynamite Hence Humanist Invention Nobel Prize Regretted
There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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Action Anti Attitude Create Distraction Gay Insincerity Legislator Like Lot Mobilise Try
My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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Asleep Certain Children Father Fell Gather Point Story Use
Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Fragrance Heart Offer Romance Soul Sticken Sweetening
When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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Corruption Direct Entire Form Look Other Society Some
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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All Lesson Sit Sown Ultimate Write

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