Blunders Quote by Ibrahim Babangida

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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

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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

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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.

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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.

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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the…

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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…

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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

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Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make a fuss over it? Our self-removal from this planet would still be a magnificent move, a feat so luminous it would bedim the sun. What do we have to lose? No evil would attend our…

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