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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

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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Citizenship Country Ethnicity Gender
The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Earth Existence Ideal Myself Place
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
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
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
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
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
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
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
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
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
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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Beginning Himself Man Pay Visit
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash

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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