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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Change Learning Myself
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Enough Oneself Strength Tradition
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Growth Life Old People Thinking
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Dance Mask Place Stand World Yourself
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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Deep Lizard Philosophy Praise
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Dance Finding Music Self Love Yourself
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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Afraid Artist Question Solution Ultimate View

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