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Chinua Achebe Quotes: If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.
         

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.


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In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.



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There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.



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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.



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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 it's around your neck.



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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.



The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.



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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate



If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.



One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.



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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.





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We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.




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