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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.

Haile Selassie

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
HAILE SELASSIE

Achievement Care Children Father Worth
It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
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Important Material Spiritual
Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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Democracy Politics Word
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Animal Compassion Easy
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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Escape Fall Freedom Ignorance Live Man Rain World
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
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Difference Goal History Ourselves Path Strength Teaching Unity
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
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
Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
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Alone Man Food Intellectual Soul
There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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Action Divine Ourselves Safety Teaching
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 SELASSIE

Blessing Faith Ourselves Result Togetherness Unity
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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Born Creation Early Human Men Talent Virtue World
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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Art Expectation Grace Material Sacrifice Tree
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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Job Material Tools
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
HAILE SELASSIE

God Greatness History Judgement Nation Remember

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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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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