British Academy/presidents of The British Academy 1902%e2%80%93present

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    “Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over—except when they are different.”
    —Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Quoted in Guardian (London, July 21, 1988)

    “The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.”
    —Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)