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“How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?”
Source : "New Stage Production Explores Black Church Arsons" by Adelle M. Banks, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2010.
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“Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.”
Source : Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (2010). “Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades”, p.21, Penguin
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“I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in this country who don't care about the problems of the inner city. We have to fight every day that we get up for every little thing that we get. And so I keep struggling.”
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“...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.”
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“The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality.”
Source : Communique on the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill, 2006.
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“How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?”
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“The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift. One moment, there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events.”
Source : Bridget Riley, Arts Council of Great Britain (1984). “Working with colour: recent paintings and studies”
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“It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.”