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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

Chinua Achebe

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
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy Education Function Government Leadership Participate
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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Deal Fools Goodness Known Man Peace Thinking Yourself
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
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
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Dance Hurry Lame Pleasure
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
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
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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Moral Photograph Physical
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
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
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
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
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

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