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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.

Chinua Achebe

There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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Beginning Himself Man Pay Visit
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
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 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
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
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
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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Foot Hands Hold Myself Pretend
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
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.
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Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
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
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing

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