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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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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. – Chinua Achebe

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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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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. – Noel Coward

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But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream. – Jason Mraz

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