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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

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
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
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
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
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
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
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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Confirm Failure Head People See
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
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.
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Expression Feeling Story Talk
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
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
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
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

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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