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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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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. – 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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Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, were going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it. – Cheryl Tiegs

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Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked Howls Moving Castle. Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing. – Stephen Hunter

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