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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.

Chinua Achebe

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
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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Beginning Identify People Removal Situation Story Yourself
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
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
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom

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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