"Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again."

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Lionel Blue

#Saws Quotes #Idolatry Quotes

“I shall never forget my admiration for that German pilot, who single handed, fought seven of us for ten minutes. I saw him go into a fairly steep dive and so I continued to watch, and then saw the triplane hit the ground and disappear into a thousand fragments, for it seemed to me that it literally went into powder.”

Source : James McCudden (2009). “Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps”, p.200, Casemate / Greenhill
“The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.”

Source : Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books
“Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.”
“As I wish for you dreams that will soothe your soul, dreams that will whisper of secrets untold. I wish for you dreams that will capture your life, dreams so spectacular and bright you can know no strife. I wish for you my child, a dream as brilliant as sunrise, and warm as it's gentle rays. But most of all precious one, I dream for you, of many peaceful days.”
“â€¦that's what old people are here for, â€” else their experience is of little use.”
“This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.”

Source : "World Twenty20: Mike Hussey and Australia pickpocket Pakistan" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2010.
“However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.”

Source : Laurie R. King (2014). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.297, Macmillan
“There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.”

Source : "Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science". Book by Eric Temple Bell, 1951.

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