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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.

Chinua Achebe

Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Change Ideas Leadership Limitation Power Problem Stay
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
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
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
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
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
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
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 man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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Book Creation Different Myself People
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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Direction Neighbor People Story
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom

If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.

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