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Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe

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
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason 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
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
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
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Competition Coward Fight Hungry Man See
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
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
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
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength
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
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
The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Earth Existence Ideal Myself Place

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