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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

Chinua Achebe

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
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
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
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
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
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Oneself Wings
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
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength
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
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
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Destroy Language Man Old Repair Talk Togetherness Young
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
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
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
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
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
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
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
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Hands Literature Ourselves Reality
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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Moral Photograph Physical

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