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"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
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"Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame."
"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"
"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
"Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee."
"I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president."
"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant."
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"That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind."
"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them."
"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."
"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."
"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"
"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."
"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."
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