"For many, the icon of the British Museum……" — Neil MacGregor
"For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa."
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23 Quotes by Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor has 23 quotes on this site.
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From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make;…
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Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
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For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects…
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In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of…
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[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different…
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The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have…
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The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.
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For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
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Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science,…
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It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things…
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Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of…
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Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the…
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I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I…
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American…
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The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
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No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their…
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...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient…
— Unknown Author
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The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain…
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The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable...…
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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in…
— John Hume
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A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting
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