When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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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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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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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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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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