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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.
Haile Selassie
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Haile Selassie
Age: 83 †
Born: 1892
Born: July 23
Died: 1975
Died: August 26
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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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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding
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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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We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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Education develops the intellect and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life
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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 should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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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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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 United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
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In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.
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I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.
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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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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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