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Quote by Ibrahim Babangida
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its pas

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

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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

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Freedom
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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

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alone
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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 humanitys most enduring legacies. – Ibrahim Babangida

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Technology
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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the males superiority. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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Society

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

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Society

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. – Theodor Adorno

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Society

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People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures. – Proverb

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No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. – Sir Winston Churchill

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. – Francois Fenelon

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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. – Doris Day

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