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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

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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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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Design Embrace Generation History Performance Recognition Task
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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Cook Greatness Home Known Mom Neighbor
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
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
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
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
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
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
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
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
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Oneself Wings
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth

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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