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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Chinua Achebe

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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Eat People Talk Yourself
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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Design Embrace Generation History Performance Recognition Task
One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
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
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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Thinking Work Yourself
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
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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Finding Neck People Time Water Yourself
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay

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