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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

Chinua Achebe

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Hands Literature Ourselves Reality
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
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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Earth Existence Ideal Myself Place
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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Deal Fools Goodness Known Man Peace Thinking Yourself
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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Adventure Kindness Myself Way
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy Education Function Government Leadership Participate
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value
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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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth
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
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Feeling Himself Madness Man Naked Shame
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

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