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

Chinua Achebe

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
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
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Character Ethnicity Greatness Man Pay Respect
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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Direction Neighbor People 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
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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Bone Fall Myself Son
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
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
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
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value

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