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• What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
  -- Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960...
• What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
  HARKNESS...
• A group of the unwilling, composed of the unfit, to do the unnecessary for the unaware in an untidy manner at an untimely moment employing unseemly tactics for the uninformed.
  Ah, give me a chance at that committee and we can really go nowhere fast and get there before most people even know that we left....
• The theory of liberty, when delivered in a political speech by a candidate
  always sounds far better and contains a great deal more promise than the actual practice of liberty is prepared to give unless the listeners are willing to pay higher taxes....
• The Committee for the Reduction of Redundancy and the Antiproliferation of Repetition has decided not to meet until they have their first meeting and thus will not be meeting until the first time.
  Their Premeeting Statement wanted to make this clear before they had their first meeting, so that it would not be uncertain or confusing....
• Committee, n.: A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
  -- Fred Alle...
• A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.