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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.

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