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Wole Soyinka

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

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Amber Hurdle

"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

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Amber Hurdle

"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

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"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."

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Amber Hurdle

"Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power."

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Amber Hurdle

"...without money you cannot fight money."

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Amber Hurdle

"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all."

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Amber Hurdle

"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

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Amber Hurdle

"Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law."

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"Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater."
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"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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"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."
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"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
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"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."
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