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  • A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
    Ibrahim Babangida (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. (Ibrahim Babangida (92))
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  • A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance. (Charles Babbage (92))
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  • Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity. (Charles Babbage (92))
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