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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Chinua Achebe

There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story
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
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
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
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
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Hands Literature Ourselves Reality
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
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
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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Beginning Identify People Removal Situation Story Yourself
The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Earth Existence Ideal Myself Place

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

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