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

Chinua Achebe

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
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
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
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
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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Beginning Himself Man Pay Visit
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
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
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
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Carry Himself Man Wisdom
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Confirm Failure Head People See
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
No man however great is greater than his people.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Deal Fools Goodness Known Man Peace Thinking Yourself
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger

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

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