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

Chinua Achebe

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
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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Creation History Meaning Storyteller Survival
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Animal Frog Known Life See Yourself
If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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Foot Hands Hold Myself Pretend
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
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story
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
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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young

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

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