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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

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Mouth Old Ourselves People Sweet
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
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
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
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
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman

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