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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Chinua Achebe

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Dance Mask Place Stand World 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
Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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Beyond Blind Cattle Ourselves Warrior
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Hands Literature Ourselves Reality
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
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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Afraid Artist Question Solution Ultimate View
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

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