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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us a

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. – Frank Moore Colby

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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?… 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

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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. – Barnett Cocks, attributed

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To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. – Robert Copeland

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Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. – George Will

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