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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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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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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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I knew that I could vote and that that wasnt a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. – Stokely Carmichael

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When friends asked me, Can we help? Id say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars. – Charlie Sheen

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Time and the hour run through the roughest day. – William Shakespeare

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The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think thats a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, Ill never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I dont care about the environment, thats not it. But I adore muscle cars. – Michael Symon

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If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: Im drawn to locations. What really drew me to The 4400, aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver. – Billy Campbell

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