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

Chinua Achebe

A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Friendship Goat Hen Stomach
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
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
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
As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Mouth Old Ourselves People Sweet
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
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power 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

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