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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

Chinua Achebe

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength
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
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
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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End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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Book Creation Different Myself People
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
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
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
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
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Change Learning Myself

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

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