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A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
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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 couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
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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 should be a pair of snuffers. He is oftener an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
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