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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.

Audience Dynamic Quality Environment
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No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.

Man Womb Mother Denies
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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.

Truth Antithesis Antagonism Society
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
Glutton Tranquility
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Colonialism Bred Innate Imperial
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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.

Believe Learning Best Process
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Power Domination Control Selective
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

Ultimate Lesson Just Write
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Leaders Always Elected Habit
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

Teach Nobody Who Describe
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Clever White Religion Amused
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There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Lions History Hunt Glorify
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Learnt Experience Nothing
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

People Growing Life
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Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.
Procrastination Lazy Man Apology
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

Mad Naked Walks Kinsmen
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Old People Sweetness Mouths
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Christianity Valuable Thing Whole
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Nigeria Trouble Mistreatment Religion
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
World Mask Dancing Stand
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Minute Love Blind Story
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I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

Never Dreamed Happiness Ducking
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You have become my thinking’s single thought, My heart’s first love: it had no love before. I love you as no love on earth is wrought, I love you now and love you evermore.

Become Thinking Heart Love
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Friendship Love Warm Steady
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Love Sky Secret Fly
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Beauty Delight Butterfly Admit
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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Love Fall Because Reality
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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Love Greatest Life Refreshment
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Smile Love People Give
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Fire Loving Strong Human
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

Feel Seem Less Earth
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Dare Love Rainbow Gold
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By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Agent Become Entire Flower
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

Busy Complete Down Ever
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Love Recognize Jump Hurdle
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love Desire Irresistible Irresistibly
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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Love Someone Look Clothes
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We loved with a love that was more than love.

Love That With More
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love Smoke Make With
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Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Doubt Thou Stars Fire
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love True Destiny Find
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Lord Will Find Way
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Happen Lip Their Came
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Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Today True Truer Alive
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Read Know Learn Places
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Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Fit Stand Out Born
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From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

Funny Here Everywhere Things
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Everything stinks until it’s finished.

Stinks Finished Everything Until
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We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Weird Love Life Someone
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Be awesome! Be a book nut!
Book Nut Awesome
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