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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

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
If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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Foot Hands Hold Myself Pretend
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
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Change Learning Myself
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
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
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
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
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
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
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Man Prosperity Rule Woman
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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