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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Chinua Achebe

Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
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
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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Art Conversation Eat Word
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
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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Eat People Talk Yourself
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Different Kind Language Price Submission World
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
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
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
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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Citizenship Country Ethnicity Gender
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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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon

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