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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Chinua Achebe

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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