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 ACHEBEPeople create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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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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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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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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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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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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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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