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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

Haile Selassie

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
HAILE SELASSIE

Achievement Knowledge Love Path Understand
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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Civilization Comfortable Greatness Improvement Life Men Oneself Progress Science Time
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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Development Effort Greatness Simple Start Success
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Book Experience Learning Life Mindset Yourself
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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Development Education Intellectual Life Man
You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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Leadership Learning Remember
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
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Destiny Greatness Guide Life Man Power Spiritual
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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Grace Imagination Perseverance Success Togetherness Yourself
Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
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Alone Man Food Intellectual Soul
Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
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Relationship Unity
We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
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Act Future History Leaving Past
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
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
The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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Mental Oneself Reward
Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
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Equality Eyes Freedom Human Peace Talk

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