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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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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home. ↗

— Ben Okri

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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something. ↗

— Ben Okri

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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. ↗

— Ben Okri

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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in. ↗

— Ben Okri

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Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

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During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

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Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

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I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

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