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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 feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.
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I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
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We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During…
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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down…
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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present…
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide…
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If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may…
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If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile…
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The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.
— Margaret Laurence
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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