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Ben Okri

"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."

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"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."

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Angie karan

"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics."

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Angie karan

"The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action there is a reaction."

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Angie karan

"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."

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Angie karan

"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."

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Angie karan

"I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice."

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Angie karan

"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."

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Angie karan

"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

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Angie karan

"Kingdom laws are inherent to the native of mankind."

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Angie karan

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

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Angie karan

"What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death."

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Ben Okri
"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."

Dream

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Ben Okri
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."

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Ben Okri
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

Love

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Ben Okri
"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

Despair

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Ben Okri
"Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space."

Time

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Ben Okri
"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."

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Ben Okri
"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

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Ben Okri
"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure."

Imagination

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Ben Okri
"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."

Reading

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Ben Okri
"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

Fact

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