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Ben Okri has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide,…
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been…
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it…
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The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never…
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live…
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And…
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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re…
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I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and…
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not…
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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,…
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After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a…
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Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it…
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We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has…
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Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American…
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There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is…
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The first thing to look for when searching for a great employee is somebody with a personality that fits with your company…
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Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.
— J C Ryle
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People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.
— Cesar Millan
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We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop…
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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing…
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