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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Chinua Achebe

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
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
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
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
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
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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Clear Fools Himself Man Peace Togetherness White Winning
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Fingering Oneself

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