A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
CHINUA ACHEBEPeople 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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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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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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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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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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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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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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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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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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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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