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Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.

Haile Selassie

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 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
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
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
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Animal Compassion Easy
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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Establishment Identity Ourselves Past Personality
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
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
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
Place principle above all else.
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Character One Liner Place Principle
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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Difference Goal History Ourselves Path Strength Teaching Unity
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
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
Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
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Accomplishment Courage Goal
It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
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Important Material Spiritual
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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Act Action Different Evil History Justice Possible Silence Success Voice

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