"Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

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“There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.”
“The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.181, LSU Press
“I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me." I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me."”
“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.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.84, Westminster John Knox Press
“If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.”
“The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.”
“Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.”
“In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.”

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