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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

Chinua Achebe

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
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Oneself Wings
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
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
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
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
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
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
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
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 no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

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