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First Things First

by Stephen R. Covey

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Apr 02, 2012 11:43AM

“What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart.... He turned the yam with a stick.”
― Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God

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“There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.”
― Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

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“A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing”
― Chinua Achebe

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“Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.”
― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

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“And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.”
― Chinua Achebe

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