"There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world."

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Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.84, Westminster John Knox Press

William Sloane Coffin

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“There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.”
“The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.”
“Somtimes I regret [that debut album was titled "Bad Azz" ], because people take it the wrong way. Everybody got a bad ways, and I'm a 'Bad Ass'... whenever I'm not good, so that's what I'm talkin' about.”

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“A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.”
“The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.”
“Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.”

Source : Yoko Ogawa (2013). “Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales”, p.78, Picador
“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”
“Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)

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