Balance

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You cannot balance one thing; you balance a diversity of things. And diversity is the engine of the evolution of living things, including living civilizations.

Chinua Achebe, Home and Exile

Seeing well

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If you want to see well, you must not stand in one place. ... And this is the way I think the world's stories should be told – from many different perspectives.

Chinua Achebe

History of the Hunt

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Until the lions produce their own historians, the history of the hunt will glorify only the hunter.

Chinua Achebe, Home and Exile

Suffering

When suffering knocks at your door

and you say there is no seat for him,

he tells you not to worry

because he has brought his own stool.

Chinua Achebe