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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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Cook Greatness Home Known Mom Neighbor
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing 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
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Enough Oneself Strength Tradition
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
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
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
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
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Development Finding Rural Thinking
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching

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