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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Chinua Achebe

Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
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
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
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
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
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
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
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Change Learning Myself
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
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
Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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Thinking Work Yourself

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