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Haile Selassie

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
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
No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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Faith God Human Judgement Oneself Way
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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Change Democracy Kindess Loyalty Man Word
A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.
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Education Fools Learning Man Myself
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
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Blessing Faith Ourselves Result Togetherness Unity
The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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Mental Oneself Reward
You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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Leadership Learning Remember
Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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Empathy Feeling Need
Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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Democracy Politics Word
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
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
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
Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’
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Judgement Peace Problem
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
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Destroy God Government History Judgement People Remember Strong Weakness
There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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Acceptance Authority Deep Escape Power Responsibility
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
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
Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
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Alone Man Food Intellectual Soul
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
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
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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Job Material Tools
Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.
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Feeling Life Man Play Problem Role Walk
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
We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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Acceptance Existence Peace Togetherness
Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
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Believe Goal Ourselves

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