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Quote by Chinua Achebe
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn not

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. – Chinua Achebe

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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasnt perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. – Chinua Achebe

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good
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you dont always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! – Chinua Achebe

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Government
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe

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History
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Experience
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Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. – Bell Hooks

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Ive learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, its important to knock them down a peg. – Jonah Hill

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Experience

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but Im too classy to bring that up. – Todd Barry

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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin

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Silence is also speech. – Proverb

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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. – Freeman Dyson

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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work. – Mitt Romney

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