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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.

Haile Selassie

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 Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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Expression Men Nation
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
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
The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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Mental Oneself Reward
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
Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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Empathy Feeling Need
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Animal Compassion Easy
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
There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions – they lead to defeat.
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Ambition Courage Decision Defeat Emotion People Weakness
We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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Progress Slow 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.
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Book Experience Learning Life Mindset Yourself
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
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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Men Moments Opportunity Ourselves Power Preparation Strength
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
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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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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