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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Chinua Achebe

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Growth Life Old People Thinking
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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Design Embrace Generation History Performance Recognition Task
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
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
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
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
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

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