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A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
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A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
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A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
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A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
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