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Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life.

Haile Selassie

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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Men Moments Opportunity Ourselves Power Preparation Strength
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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Job Material Tools
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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Grace Imagination Perseverance Success Togetherness Yourself
Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.
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Force Institution Issues Nation Peace Reality
Leadership does not mean domination.
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Dominate Leadership One Liner
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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Expression Men Nation
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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Deal Death Enemy Men Stop War
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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Illusion Issues Live Men Myself Security
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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Art Expectation Grace Material Sacrifice Tree
Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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Democracy Politics Word
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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Blessing Faith Ourselves Result Togetherness Unity
Place principle above all else.
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Character One Liner Place Principle
The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
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Nation Opinion Unity World
There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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Acceptance Authority Deep Escape Power Responsibility
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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Escape Fall Freedom Ignorance Live Man Rain World
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Difference Goal History Ourselves Path Strength Teaching Unity

Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life.

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Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life.

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