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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Chinua Achebe

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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Citizenship Country Ethnicity Gender
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
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
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
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
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
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
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 only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

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