“ Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it. ”
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“ Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life to drive the crowd away from His church. ”
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“ When mothercow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth ”
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“ When mothercow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth ”
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“ Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe. ”
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“ Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe. ”
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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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“ Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come. ”
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“ The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this. ”
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“ 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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“ A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. ”
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“ The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes. ”
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“ Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes. ”
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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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“ Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ”
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“ Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ”
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“ A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. ”
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“ What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time. ”
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“ They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit. ”
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“ A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. ”
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“ The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. ”
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“ Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come. ”
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“ It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important — and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year… ”
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“ The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. ”
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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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“ 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 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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“ The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this. ”
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“ Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come. ”
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