"The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community."

History, Life, Community, First

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"The history of man is a must read poetry."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

Lawrence Durrell, British Writer

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"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"History is the hallmark of humanity."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."

Life

"Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex."

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"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."

Eye

"I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women."

Woman

"Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make."

History

"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."

Culture

"I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation."

Desperation

"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."

Purpose

"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."

War

"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."

Time