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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.

Chinua Achebe

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
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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Beginning Himself Man Pay Visit
As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
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
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
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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Control Freedom Human Religion Spirit Threat
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
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Hands Literature Ourselves Reality
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
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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Bone Fall Myself Son
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

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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