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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

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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Direction Neighbor People Story
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Children Live Prayer Wing
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
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Man Prosperity Rule Woman
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
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman

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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