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Chinua Achebe has 164 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because…
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something…
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more…
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or…
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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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…
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing…
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I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
— Drew Barrymore
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You think you're in a place where you're all 'I'm thrilled to be gay, I have no issues about being gay anymore,…
— Ellen Page
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
— Chinua Achebe
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We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.
— Lewis B. Smedes
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We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.
— Konrad Lorenz
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Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we…
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no…
— Lisa Loomer
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Customs, morals — is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and…
— Jubal
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It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving…
— Germaine Greer
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