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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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Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action.
— Unknown Author
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Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without…
— Samuel Johnson
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Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission,…
— Charles Duhigg
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Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with…
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Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not…
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Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United…
— Tom Tancredo
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Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on…
— Lars Ulrich
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