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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
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
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Oneself Wings
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
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
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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy Education Function Government Leadership Participate
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
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Animal Frog Known Life See Yourself
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
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
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.

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