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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.

Chinua Achebe

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Bone Fall Myself Son
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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Oneself Peace People Understand
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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Afraid Artist Question Solution Ultimate View
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
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
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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Break Hurt Man Neck Seek
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
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
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Apology Man Perspective Procrastination

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