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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

Chinua Achebe

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
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
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
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
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
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Dance Mask Place Stand World Yourself
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Change Learning Myself
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
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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Discover Finding Fulfill Generation Mission Need
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
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 a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Competition Coward Fight Hungry Man See

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

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