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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

Chinua Achebe

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Dance Finding Music Self Love Yourself
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
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
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
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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Oneself Peace People Understand
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
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
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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Greatness Imagination Man Privilege Yourself
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
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
I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Adventure Kindness Myself Way
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Change Ideas Leadership Limitation Power Problem Stay
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.
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Experience Fiction Subject Theory
Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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Book Creation Different Myself People
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

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