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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

Chinua Achebe

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
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Dance Mask Place Stand World Yourself
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
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
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
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
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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Damage Repair Time
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
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
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
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
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
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Dance Hurry Lame Pleasure
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
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.
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Man Prosperity Rule Woman

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

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