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“To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon”

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“A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.”


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“Behind closed doors each winter the college admissions committee riffles through the folders of concerto - writing East Coast preppies, football stars from the Corn Belt and ghetto valedictorians.”
Arthur Lubow quotes

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“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.”
Alfred Whitney Griswold quotes (American Educator, 1906-1963)

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“I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (the Guffey Coal Control Bill)”
Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes (American 32nd US President (1933-45), cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president. 1882-1945)
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“QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.”
Frank Moore Colby quotes (American writer 1865 - 1925)

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“I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.”
Arnold Toynbee quotes (English Economic Historian and social reformer, 1889-1975)
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“There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.”
Lester J. Pourciau quotes

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“Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.”
Katharine Whitehorn quotes

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