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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Chinua Achebe

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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Control Freedom Human Religion Spirit Threat
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
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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Expression Feeling Story Talk
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
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing 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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
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
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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Confirm Failure Head People See
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

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