In choice of committees; for ripening business for the counsel, it is better to choose indifferent persons, than to make an indifferency, by putting in those, that are strong on both sides.
为使议事前的准备更成熟,遴选委员会时,与其把立场强硬的双方凑在一起求取平衡,不如直接选择公正无偏的人。
— Francis Bacon · Essays · Of Counsel —