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About Melluvahess

My name is Sean Maguire and I am the founder of Maths Made Elementary. I provide expert one-to-one maths tuition within North London to lower and upper secondary level students studying at Key Stages 3 and 4. For more information about me, and the services I offer, please check out my website www.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk

Cornelius Tacitus quotes

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Melluvahess

Tacitus, Cornelius (55 AD – 117 AD), Roman historian & politician There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations. It is the rare fortune of … Continue reading →

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Jesus quotes

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Melluvahess

Jesus (7–2 BC to 30–33 AD), Jewish revolutionary, cult founder and leader, political activist, humanitarian, pacifist, egalitarian social reformer, lecturer and moral philosopher A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must … Continue reading →

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Riddles 10

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Melluvahess

1. I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I? 2. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was … Continue reading →

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Carl Sagan quotes

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Melluvahess

Sagan, Carl (1934 – 1996), US astronomer & populariser of astronomy Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If God wanted to send us a message and ancient writing were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have … Continue reading →

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Puzzles 10

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Melluvahess

1. Which month has twenty-nine days in a leap year? 2. In five years’ time, I will be three times as old as I was three years ago. How old am I now? 3. The mother, father, son, daughter, uncle, … Continue reading →

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Saadi quotes

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Melluvahess

Saadi (1184 – 1291), Persian poet Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments … Continue reading →

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Ann Radcliffe quotes

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Melluvahess

Radcliffe, Ann (1764 – 1823), English writer and pioneer of the gothic novel Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult. Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always … Continue reading →

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Anna Quindlen quotes

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Melluvahess

Quindlen, Anna (b.1953), American author, journalist, and opinion columnist Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived. The thing that is really hard, … Continue reading →

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Thomas Paine quotes

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Melluvahess

Paine, Thomas (1737 – 1809),US patriot & political philosopher To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to … Continue reading →

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George Orwell quotes

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Melluvahess

Orwell, George (1903 – 1950), English essayist, novelist, & satirist On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. “If both the past and the external world exist only in … Continue reading →

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