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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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Thinking Work Yourself
The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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Children Family Man Sex Tribe Woman World
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 I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Change Ideas Leadership Limitation Power Problem Stay
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
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
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
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

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