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The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many…

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From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this…
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell…
In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of…
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could…
The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life,…
The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and…
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:…
Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world,…
Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of…

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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C.S. Lewis
A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The… — Hal Borland
We possess art lest we perish of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.’ — Mark Victor Hansen
Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an… — Gregory Benford
Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an… — Jack White
If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. — Paul Valery
Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It… — Terrence McNally
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within… — James A. Baldwin
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from… — Clive Barker
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life,… — Neil MacGregor

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