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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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Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
— Arna Bontemps
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This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them…
— Paul Robeson
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The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering…
— David Walker
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
— Wendell Phillips
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Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created.
— Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
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The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.…
— Barack Obama
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their…
— Franklin Pierce
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
— Alexander Pope
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O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
— William Shakespeare
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For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure…
— Michel de Montaigne
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