A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
CHINUA ACHEBEWomen and music should not be dated.
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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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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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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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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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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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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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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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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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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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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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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