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

Chinua Achebe

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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Clear Fools Himself Man Peace Togetherness White Winning
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
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Growth Life Old People Thinking
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
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
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
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
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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Creation History Meaning Storyteller Survival
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War

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

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