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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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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
There is no story that is not true.
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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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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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Oneself Peace People Understand
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
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
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
I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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Break Hurt Man Neck Seek
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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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