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Among Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through…
- There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with…
- Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.
- 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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- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
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- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage