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

Chinua Achebe

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
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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Break Hurt Man Neck Seek
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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Expression Feeling Story Talk
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Competition Coward Fight Hungry Man See
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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Control Freedom Human Religion Spirit Threat
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
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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Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength
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
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
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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Bone Fall Myself Son
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Development Finding Rural Thinking
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth

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

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

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