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We were by no means naive as to think that these fundamental changes in the historical direction of the post-colonial Nigerian state was going to be painless or yield instant results.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about state

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Quote by Dean Acheson about present, past, art, magic

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Quote by Bette Davis about love

Riding shotgun does not mean you shoot the tires of non-yielding vehicles.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Quote by Thomas Paine about man, shadow, liberty, thinking

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.

Quote by Alexandra Paul

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Quote by Pindar about wisdom, interest, self-control

Abstainer a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about temptation, pleasure, man

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about liberty, time, life

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Quote by Helen Keller about opinion, enemies, self-control, world