If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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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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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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