George Blake quotes
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“I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.”
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“As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.”
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“Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.”
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“It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.”
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“Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.”
-- George Blake
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Source : "Author delivers 'accessible' Soviet history" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2000.
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Source : "Polymathematics: is mathematics a single science or a set of arts?". Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, edited by V. I. Arnold, M. Atiyah, P. Lax, and B. Mazur, pp. 403 - 416, 2000.
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“Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.”
Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2013). “The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells”, p.55, Faber & Faber
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“I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.”
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“I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!”
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Source : "Carrie Ann Inaba Picks Her Ultimate DWTS Contestant, and Admits: 'I've Thrown Up Before Every Show'" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. March 27, 2012.
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