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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.

— Haile Selassie

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To win the War, to overcome the enemy upon the fields cannot alone ensure the Victory in Peace.

Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both.

All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.

What we seek is a new and a different way of life.

Education is a means of sharpening the mind of man both spiritually and intellectually. It is a two-edged sword that can be used either for the progress of mankind or for its destruction.

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