"Every generation must recognize and embrace the task……" — Chinua Achebe
"Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform."
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Chinua Achebe
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162 Quotes by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe has 162 quotes on this site.
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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…
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we…
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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,…
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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.…
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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…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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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…
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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.…
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
— Mackenzie Astin
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
— Jacques Barzun
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution,…
— Glenn Beck
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
— Omar N. Bradley
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights…
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