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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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Haile Selassie
Age: 83 †
Born: 1892
Born: July 23
Died: 1975
Died: August 26
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The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace
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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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As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
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Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.
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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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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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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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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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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding
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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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