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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.

Chinua Achebe

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
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
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
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Destroy Language Man Old Repair Talk Togetherness Young
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Character Ethnicity Greatness Man Pay Respect
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
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Children Live Prayer Wing
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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Adventure Kindness Myself Way
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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Afraid Artist Question Solution Ultimate View
I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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Eat People Talk Yourself
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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Control Freedom Human Religion Spirit Threat
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Dance Hurry Lame Pleasure
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
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

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