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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, y

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you dont just turn it off one day. – Chinua Achebe

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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. – 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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From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power – a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. – Alex Campbell

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You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure theyre all pointed in the right direction. – Mark Pincus

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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. – Ovid

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And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed. – Allen Klein

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It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country. – Jon Meacham

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