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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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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. – Elbert Hubbard

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

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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

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If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee. – Author Unknown

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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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