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It 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.

Chinua Achebe

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
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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Design Embrace Generation History Performance Recognition Task
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
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
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
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
Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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Thinking Work Yourself
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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Break Hurt Man Neck Seek
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Dance Finding Music Self Love Yourself

It 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.

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