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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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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 court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
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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 critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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A critic knows more than the author he criticises, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
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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 durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.
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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people.
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