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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

Chinua Achebe

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
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Hands Literature Ourselves Reality
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
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
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
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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Beginning Himself Man Pay Visit
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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Bone Fall Myself Son
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
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
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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Cook Greatness Home Known Mom Neighbor
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
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
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Development Finding Rural Thinking

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

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