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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Chinua Achebe

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Different Kind Language Price Submission World
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand 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
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Dance Finding Music Self Love Yourself
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
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
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
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
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
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength

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