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

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
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
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
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
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
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
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
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
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
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
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 world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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Children Family Man Sex Tribe Woman World
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 language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

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