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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.

Chinua Achebe

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People
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
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
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
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
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story
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
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
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Children Live Prayer Wing
Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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Discover Finding Fulfill Generation Mission Need
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking

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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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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