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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

Chinua Achebe

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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Greatness Imagination Man Privilege Yourself
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Competition Coward Fight Hungry Man See
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
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand 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
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
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Feeling Himself Madness Man Naked Shame
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Children Live Prayer Wing
A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Friendship Goat Hen Stomach
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
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

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

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