Chinua Achebe Quotes
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
Quotes to Explore
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
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The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.
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I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
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The fun of sitting around Pangong Lake with 40 guys around a fireplace, having a glass of wine... staying in one camp together... that's an experience. Waking up at 5 in the morning, watching the sun come up. You don't do these things in Bombay.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
