"If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all."

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Chinua Achebe

#Understanding Quotes #Stories Quotes #Sides Quotes

“Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.”
“The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.”
“Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.”
“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
“By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.”
“There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.”
“He is as good as his word - and his word is no good.”

Source : Seumas MacManus (1950). “Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain”

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