A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.
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More Haile Selassie Quotes
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It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
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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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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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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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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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There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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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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Any 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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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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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
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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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We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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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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Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
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One cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.
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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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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions – they lead to defeat.
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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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We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
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Leadership does not mean domination.
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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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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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