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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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Finding Neck People Time Water Yourself
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
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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Confirm Failure Head People See
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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Beginning Identify People Removal Situation Story Yourself
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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Break Hurt Man Neck Seek
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Dance Mask Place Stand World 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
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

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