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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

Chinua Achebe

If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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Expression Feeling Story Talk
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
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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Foot Hands Hold Myself Pretend
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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Oneself Peace People Understand
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Mouth Old Ourselves People Sweet
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.
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Deal Fools Goodness Known Man Peace Thinking Yourself
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

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