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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.

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Wole Soyinka
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 13
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