"The most basic task of any museum must……" — Martin Filler

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of… - Martin Filler

"The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same."

— Martin Filler

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the… — Jane Austen
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen… — John Cage
The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive… — J. G. Holland
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. — Robert Bunsen
The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances -… — Peter Drucker
The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and… — J. William Fulbright
Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as… — William James
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for… — Lev S. Vygotsky

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