A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.


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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to...
PETER USTINOV
The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e...
PETER CONRAD
Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
PETER NICOLS
Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.
PETER SCOTESE
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
PETER SELLER
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intell...
PETER USTINOV
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER
All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
PETER WASTHOLM
Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making fri...
PETER DRUCKER
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
PETER USTINOV
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most c...
PETER USTINOV
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
PETER MARSHALL
Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ...
PETER DAVIES
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
PETER DRUCKER
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we s...
PETER MARSHALL
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the mos...
PETER DRUCKER
Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER
The computer is a moron.
PETER DRUCKER
As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
PETER DRUCKER
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up...
PETER WASTHOLM
Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
PETER LATHAM
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont...
PETER CONRAD
If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
PETER GILCREST
First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see t...
PETER KLINE
The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to asp...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKER
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
PETER DRUCKER
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
PETER LYNCH
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETER TOWNSEND
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are tau...
PETER USTINOV
Decision making is the specific executive task.
PETER DRUCKER
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
PETER WASTHOLM
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when s...
PETER QUENNELL
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance...
PETER CONRAD