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.
CHINUA ACHEBEIt is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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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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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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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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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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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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