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

Chinua Achebe

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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Moral Photograph Physical
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
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
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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Finding Neck People Time Water Yourself
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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Art Conversation Eat Word
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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Afraid Artist Question Solution Ultimate View
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.
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Confirm Failure Head People See
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
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Different Kind Language Price Submission World
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Enough Oneself Strength Tradition

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

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