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Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#brainy #conservatives #his #how #impressed

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#blacks #bottom #class #institute #massachusetts

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#enjoy #even #having #i #i think

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#beginning #completely #democratic #fact #form

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#domination #form #lie #power #selective

The only certain freedom's in departure. ↗

— Robert Frost

#departure #freedom #only

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#art forms #audience #base #because #both

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #been #believe #change #committed

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#give #great #home #leaves #life

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

#antithesis #between #contest #define #ever