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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats t

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats the time to do something about it, not when its around your neck. – Chinua Achebe

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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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Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe

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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. – Chinua Achebe

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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. – Marcus Aurelius

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As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. – Rick Danko

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I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it. – John Wooden

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Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you dont. – Peter Drucker

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