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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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Chinua Achebe
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt. – Chinua Achebe

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Women
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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. – Alfred North Whitehead

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