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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Chinua Achebe

Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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Thinking Work Yourself
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Earth Existence Ideal Myself Place
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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Control Freedom Human Religion Spirit Threat
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
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
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Dance Hurry Lame Pleasure
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Different Kind Language Price Submission World

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