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As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

Chinua Achebe

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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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Art Conversation Eat Word
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Dance Finding Music Self Love Yourself
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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Citizenship Country Ethnicity Gender
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
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
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason 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
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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Moral Photograph Physical
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
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
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

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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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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