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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
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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Direction Neighbor People Story
Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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Beyond Blind Cattle Ourselves Warrior
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
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
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
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
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 white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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Clear Fools Himself Man Peace Togetherness White Winning
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
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash

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