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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

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.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
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
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Destroy Language Man Old Repair Talk Togetherness Young
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
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
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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Art Conversation Eat Word
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
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
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength

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