Miller is as an Olympian god among mortals

To young eyes, quickest to perceive the things that make cricket, Miller is as an Olympian god among mortals. He brings boys' dreams to life He is the cricketer they would all like to be, the one who can hit more gloriously and bowl faster than anybody on earth. When Neville Cardus called him a young eagle among crows and daws Miller was not a champion playing out of his class; sharing the field were him were the elect of the world's two greatest cricketing countries, Bradman, Hammond and bearers of other famous names, Compton and other men of personality

Masculine as Tarzan, he plays lustily. Style suffuses his cricket with glowing power, personality charges it with daring and knocks bowling and convention sky-high. 

R. Robinson, 'Touch of a Hero' (1951), R. Guha (ed.), The Picador book of cricket (2001), 126

There were four kinds of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina

For economists, Argentina is a perplexing country. To illustrate how difficult it was to understand Argentina, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Simon Kuznets once famously remarked that there were four kinds of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina. Kuznets thought so because, around the time of the First World War, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world. 

D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson, Why Nations Fail (2012), 384

This was a very large state budget for the period, and is in fact larger than what we see today in many parts of the world

[After 1688 in England] The state started expanding, with expenditures soon reaching around 10 percent of national income. This was underpinned by an expansion of the tax base ... This was a very large state budget for the period, and is in fact larger than what we see today in many parts of the world. The state budgets in Colombia, for example, reached this relative size only in the 1980s. In many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa - for example, in Sierra Leone - the state budget even today would be far smaller relative to the size of the economy without large inflows of foreign aid. 

D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson, Why Nations Fail (2012), 196

I blame the radio for sowing a good deal of confusion where theology is concerned

Two or three of the ladies had pronounced views on points of doctrine, particularly sin and damnation. I blame the radio for sowing a good deal of confusion where theology is concerned. And television is worse. you can spend forty years teaching people to be awake to the fact of mystery and then some fellow with no more theological sense than a jackrabbit gets himself a radio ministry and all your work is forgotten.

M. Robinson, Gilead (2004), 237

In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets

I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a human beauty in it. And I can't believe that, when we have all been changed and put on incorruptibility, we will forget our fantastic condition of mortality and impermanence, the great bright dream of procreating and perishing that meant the whole world to us. In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets. Because I don't imagine any reality putting this one to shade entirely, and I think piety forbids me to try.  

M. Robinson, Gilead (2004), 65

Feuerbach is a famous atheist, but he is about as good on the joyful aspects of religion as anybody

Feuerbach is a famous atheist, but he is about as good on the joyful aspects of religion as anybody, and he loves the world. Of course he thinks religion could just stand out of the way and let joy exist pure and undisguised. That is his one error, and it is significant. But he is marvelous on the subject of joy, an also on its religious expressions.

Broughton takes a very dim view of him, because he unsettled the faith of so many people, but I take issue as much with those people as with Feuerbach. It seems to me people just go around looking to get their faith unsettled.

M. Robinson, Gilead (2004), 27

The absolute black of the sky dulled and dimmed

The absolute black of the sky dulled and dimmed and blanched slowly away, and finally half a dozen daubs of cloud, dull powder pink, sailed high in a pale-green sky, rust-red at the horizon.

M. Robinson, Housekeeping (1980),117