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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.

Chinua Achebe

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
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
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Children Live Prayer Wing
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
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
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
When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Attention Comfortable Commitment Grave Risk Run
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
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 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
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Dance Hurry Lame Pleasure

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.

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