Quotes by Bettany Hughes

"The presence of industrial quantities of Byzantine pottery dating from the sixth century AD on the headland at Tintagel, Chinese silk in the tombs around Mecca and 'Arabic' numerals in the 13th-century beams of Salisbury Cathedral tell us we have been interdependent not for decades but across millennia."

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"Forgiveness gives you a chance to be fulfilled rather than be eaten up with anger."

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"The occasional motivational speech gig tends to pay better than the books and television."

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