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The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees. – V. S. Pritchett

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Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary. – Richard Harkness

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I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you dont want to do anything. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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