Quote by Marcus Garvey
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and c

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey

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God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. – Marcus Garvey

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God
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There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation. – Marcus Garvey

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Life
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Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. – Phyllis George

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Strip malls are history. – Jeff Bezos

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History

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. – Sidney Sheldon

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History

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. – Thomas Carlyle

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History

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Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. – Roger Ascham

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The knives of jealousy are honed on details. – Ruth Rendell

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You have to erect a fence and say, Okay, scale this. – Linda Ronstadt

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I did this Super-8 film at art school called Tissues, this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it. – Jane Campion

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