When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
CHINUA ACHEBEPeople 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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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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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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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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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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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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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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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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