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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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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,…
— Chinua Achebe
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If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
— J. B. Priestley
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I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other,…
— Henry Scott Holland
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Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.
— Henry Scott Holland
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Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
— Joanna Lumley
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
— Max Eastman
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…
— George Steiner
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Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God…
— Sheri S. Tepper
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I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by…
— Amy Hempel
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It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy…
— Ben Marcus
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Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.
— Paul Simon
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