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Chinua Achebe

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
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
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
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
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
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
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
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Growth Life Old People Thinking
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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Deal Fools Goodness Known Man Peace Thinking Yourself
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Change Ideas Leadership Limitation Power Problem Stay

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