#he

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#blair #bush #caves #law #literature

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#slaughter #slaughtered #them #will #yesterday

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#economize #increase #itself #light #necessary

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

#african #communities #fault #live #majority

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

#cannot #controllable #dimensions #economic forces #forces

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#basis #continue #country #democratic #deregulated

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#consideration #excused #money #moral #others

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

#any #country #democracy #either #foundation

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#any #attraction #benefited #completely #duties

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#almost #daily #devote #effect #exertion