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World Quotes by Neil MacGregor
- For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of…
- In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well…
- It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is…
- Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world, it was the…
- A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani