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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
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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 commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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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 coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
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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 crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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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 doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
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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 few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
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