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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

Chinua Achebe

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
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
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
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
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
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
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
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 world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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Children Family Man Sex Tribe Woman World
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
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
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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Oneself Peace People Understand

A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

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