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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Chinua Achebe

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Character Ethnicity Greatness Man Pay Respect
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
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 only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Destroy Language Man Old Repair Talk Togetherness Young
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
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
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
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
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
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
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

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