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Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe

What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
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
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
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Character Ethnicity Greatness Man Pay Respect
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Growth Life Old People Thinking
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
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
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young

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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