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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.

Chinua Achebe

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
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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Greatness Imagination Man Privilege Yourself
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
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
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
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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Afraid Artist Question Solution Ultimate View
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
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
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
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy Education Function Government Leadership Participate
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Different Kind Language Price Submission World
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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Bone Fall Myself Son
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.

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