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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and o

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. – H.L. Mencken

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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. – H.L. Mencken

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Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. – H.L. Mencken

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

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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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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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