"Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like."

-- Wole Soyinka

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“If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.”
“I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!”
“Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege”
“And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.”
“This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.”
“My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.”
“In order for us to reach success, we must first find, the ladder.”
“To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.”

Source : "Has stem cell research been over-hyped?" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.

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