A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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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.Chinua Achebe
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.
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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 which you do not see.
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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 again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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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 he has brought his own stool.
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