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Chinua Achebe Quotes: If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.
         

If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.


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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.



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



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



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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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