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"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"
"Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents."
"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
"Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame."
"Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."
"Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee."
"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
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"Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie."
"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing."
"Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that."
"The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat."
"History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose."
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