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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

Chinua Achebe

Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
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
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
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
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
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Character Ethnicity Greatness Man Pay Respect
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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Expression Feeling Story Talk
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Man Prosperity Rule Woman
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
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
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst

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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