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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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It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot…
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There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
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War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.
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Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.
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Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have…
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They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.
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Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging…
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Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to…
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the…
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To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.
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