Quote by Chinua Achebe
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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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – 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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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. – Blaise Pascal

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. – Winston Churchill

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