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


Marcus Garvey

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A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,
Birds without trees can never feel free.
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Like one tree, roots are the same.
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
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Without these people of the past, this enrichment of the sport is missed.
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Happy is the nation without a history.
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Happy is the nation without a history
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...
MARCUS AURELIUS
A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...
MARCUS AURELIUS
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking fo...
GREIL MARCUS
Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in tas...
GREIL MARCUS
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUS
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm an...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
MARCUS DOLENGO
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
MARCUS AURELIUS
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of...
GREIL MARCUS
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the go...
MARCUS AURELIUS
I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
MARCUS AURELIUS
It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the l...
GREIL MARCUS
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits...
MARCUS AURELIUS
One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, th...
MARCUS AURELIUS
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS AURELIUS