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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.

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 disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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Discover Finding Fulfill Generation Mission Need
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
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
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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Confirm Failure Head People See
Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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Beyond Blind Cattle Ourselves Warrior
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
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
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
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
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
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Enough Oneself Strength Tradition
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy Education Function Government Leadership Participate
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

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