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Chinua Achebe

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Character Ethnicity Greatness Man Pay Respect
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Hands Literature Ourselves Reality
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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Break Hurt Man Neck Seek
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Man Prosperity Rule Woman
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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Experience Fiction Subject Theory
As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Attention Comfortable Commitment Grave Risk Run
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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Cook Greatness Home Known Mom Neighbor
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
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

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