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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.

Haile Selassie

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
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Important Material Spiritual
A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.
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Education Guide Help Mindset Preparation Spirit Thinking
Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
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Creation Ideas Myself People
Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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Achievement Care Children Father Worth
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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Demand Effort See Unity
Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
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Relationship Unity
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
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
As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
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Development Himself Life Man
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
The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
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Different Greatness Hold On Inspirational Leadership Purpose True
Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.
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Destiny Greatness Guide Life Man Power Spiritual
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
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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Job Material Tools
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

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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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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