The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
HAILE SELASSIEAny who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
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It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
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We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
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History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
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Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
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A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
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A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.
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Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
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Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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Leadership does not mean domination.
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There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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