If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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My weapon is literature.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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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 brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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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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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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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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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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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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There is no story that is not true.
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