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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.

Chinua Achebe

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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Cook Greatness Home Known Mom Neighbor
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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Art Conversation Eat Word
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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Eat People Talk Yourself
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Enough Oneself Strength Tradition
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Character Ethnicity Greatness Man Pay Respect
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
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Development Finding Rural Thinking
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
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
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
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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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Dance Finding Music Self Love Yourself
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
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

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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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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