"It is of course the nature of historical……" — Ibrahim Babangida
"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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29 Quotes by Ibrahim Babangida
Ibrahim Babangida has 29 quotes on this site.
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we…
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can…
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word…
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There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do…
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and…
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
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There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that…
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces…
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which…
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every…
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The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a…
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More Contraction Quotes
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one of 46 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
— Michel de Montaigne
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All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are…
— Thaddeus Golas
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The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of…
— Ernest Starling
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Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the…
— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction…
— Richard Serra
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I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and…
— Judith Jamison
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That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet,
— LeBron James
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial…
— Adyashanti
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Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming…
— Eckhart Tolle
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As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your…
— Ken Wilber
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