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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

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Haile Selassie
Age: 83 †
Born: 1892
Born: July 23
Died: 1975
Died: August 26
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Haile Selassie
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Tafari Makonnen
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Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
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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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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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We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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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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Place principle above all else.
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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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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion the safeguarding of international peace and security.
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A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
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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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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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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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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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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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