It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
HAILE SELASSIEUnity should be the cornerstone of relations.
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We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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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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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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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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Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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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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A good leader maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
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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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Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.
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Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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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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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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Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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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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