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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Chinua Achebe

Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Thinking Work Yourself
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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Creation History Meaning Storyteller Survival
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Feeling Himself Madness Man Naked Shame
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Enough Oneself Strength Tradition
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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Book Creation Different Myself People
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
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
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Development Finding Rural Thinking
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 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
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
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.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Expression Feeling Story Talk

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