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

Chinua Achebe

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
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Dance Hurry Lame Pleasure
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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
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
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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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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Eat People Talk Yourself
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
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 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
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
A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Friendship Goat Hen Stomach
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Feeling Himself Madness Man Naked Shame
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
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
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
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
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True

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

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