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
HAILE SELASSIEPeace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’
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Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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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 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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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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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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Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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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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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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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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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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