"I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children."

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Source : "'I'm not very fast at my times tables'". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

Marcus du Sautoy

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Adults Quotes

“Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual.”
“We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.”
“Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”
“I don't write because I think I have anything particularly interesting to say. I write because I love writing more than any other work I've done. I do think about entertaining the reader to the extent that I try always to write a book that I myself would want to read, but I don't think it's up for me to decide if what I've written is interesting to others. That is entirely up to others.”
“Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.”
“Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas.”

Source : Peter Stafford (2013). “Psychedelics Encyclopedia”, p.133, Ronin Publishing
“The secret of success is doing something you love, doing it well and being recognized for it”
“We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past”

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