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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Chinua Achebe

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.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Change Ideas Leadership Limitation Power Problem Stay
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 disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Carry Cure Disease Hospital
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
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
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
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

Man Prosperity Rule Woman
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Moral Obligation Power Thinking
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Democracy Education Function Government Leadership Participate
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
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

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