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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.

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
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
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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Break Hurt Man Neck Seek
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
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Change Learning Myself
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
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
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 singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
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

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.

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