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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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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."
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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
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"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
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"The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure."
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
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"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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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."
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"Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend."
Development
"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."
Society
"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."
Society
"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."
Leadership
"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."
Challenge
"Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture."
History
"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."
Leadership
"It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line."
Nature
"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."
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