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No man however great is greater than his people.

Chinua Achebe

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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Citizenship Country Ethnicity Gender
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
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Friendship Goat Hen Stomach
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
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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Adventure Kindness Myself Way
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Mouth Old Ourselves People Sweet

No man however great is greater than his people.

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