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"You create your world with your thoughts."
"Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies."
"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"
"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."
"Television has tremendous power over our lives."
Explore more quotes by Wole Soyinka
"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
"I'm 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 I've never understood."
"One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking."
"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."
"See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome."
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