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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.

Chinua Achebe

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 one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
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 impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Earth Existence Ideal Myself Place
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Animal Frog Known Life See Yourself
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Competition Coward Fight Hungry Man See
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
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
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
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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Greatness Imagination Man Privilege Yourself
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
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

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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