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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
Appreciate
Cannot
Caught
Changing
Correctly
Does
Fast
Fortunes
Interpret
Past
Present
Society
Understand
World
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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
Afflictions
African
Communities
Fault
Live
Majority
Need
People
Reality
Remain
Same
Sensitive
Severe
Society
Still
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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
Achievement
Alone
Available
Away
Base
Concrete
Development
Every
Leadership
Luck
Nation
Opportunity
Prayers
Success
Survival
While
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
~ Ibrahim Babangida
Culture
Debate
Enrich
History
Only
Our
Views
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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
Anew
Blunder
Correct
Democracy
Mistakes
New
Offers
Opens
Opportunities
Past
Past Mistakes
Should
Use
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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
Aspire
Bring
Business
Each
Each One
Indeed
Leadership
Must
National
Nigeria
Own
Reforming
Search
Solutions
Styles
Those
Us
Views
Visions
Who
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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
Apology
Choice
Chose
Even
Even Now
Made
Make
Now
Offered
Options
Out
Paths
Patriotic
Sacrifices
Selfless
Thought
Well
Were
While
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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
Afford
Cannot
Dimensions
Forces
Held
Hostage
Indifferent
Long
Our
Our People
People
Poverty
Ramifications
Socio-Economic
We Cannot
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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
Analyst
Authority
Believe
Events
Facts
Historians
Historical
I Believe
I Believe That
Living
Make
Need
Subject
Supplied
Which
Witnesses
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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
Ask
Complex
Foundations
Freedom
Lay
Liberty
Me
Military
Mission
Our
Put
Regime
Society
Sought
Way
Were
Would
You
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
~ Ibrahim Babangida
Democracy
Experience
Foundation
History
Informed
Lasting
Nothing
Our
Require
Sad
Short
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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
Course
Destination
Distance
Historical
Line
Nature
Never
Shortest
Shortest Distance
Straight
Straight Line
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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
Across
Ages
Books
Civilization
Great
Harvest
Human
Human Civilization
Only
Through
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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
Attributes
Change
Character
Conviction
Defining
Essential
Freedom
Happened
Importantly
Liberty
Love
Most
National
National Character
Nothing
Our
People
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
~ Ibrahim Babangida
Approach
Development
Economic
Economic Development
Focused
Global
Modern
Must
Our
Trend
Tune
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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
Abandoning
Assumptions
Choice
Dictated
Driven
Economy
Either
Framework
Fundamental
Had
Hitherto
Institutions
Looked
Nigeria
Our
Our Choice
Policy
Reform
Seek
Society
Supporting
Those
Ways
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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
Alone
Average
Collaboration
Come
Could
Essentially
Fact
Fellow
Government
Hands
Her
Him
Himself
His
Merely
Nigerian
Other
Person
Progress
Provide
Reconcile
Relying
Remain
Social
Social Progress
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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
Appropriate
Challenge
Cultivation
Democracy
Direction
Economy
Emergence
Environment
Free
Free Market
Freedom
Market
Modern
Natural
New
Nigerian
Order
Project
Restructure
Saw
Social
Social Order
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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
Advanced
Any
Any Other Country
Country
Democracy
Either
Foundation
History
Lay
Other
Our
Practicing
Struggling
The History Of
Which
World
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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
Advances
Books
Date
Enduring
Form
Humanity
Information
Information Technology
Most
Reason
Remains
Spite
Still
Strategies
Technology
Till
Word
Written
Written Word
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BirthDate
17 August, 1941
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