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Quote by Elbert Hubbard
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. – Elbert Hubbard

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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. – Elbert Hubbard

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If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. – Elbert Hubbard

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A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. – Milton Berle

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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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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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A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. – Author Unknown

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