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Haile Selassie

We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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Job Material Tools
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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Foundation Home Rain Strong
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation’s development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated.
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Development Growth Intelligence Opinion Politics Progress
Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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Freedom Justice Live Long Men Remember
Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
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Dominate Leadership People Rule World
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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Ambition Courage Decision Defeat Emotion People Weakness
We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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Progress Slow Success
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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Courage Greatness Human Nation Race Spirit
Place principle above all else.
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Character One Liner Place Principle
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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Country Death Freedom Men Peace War
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
You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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Leadership Learning Remember
Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.
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Feeling Life Man Play Problem Role Walk
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
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
He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.
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Equality God Himself Human Seek Sex

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