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"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent." »Robert Copeland
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"The world is proof that God is a committee." »Bob Stokes
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"There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee." »Lester J. Pourciau
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"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock." »Arthur Goldberg
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"A camel is a horse designed by committee." »Sir Alec Issigonis
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"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." »Sir Barnett Cocks
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"If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes." »H. Ross Perot
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"A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members." »David Coblitz
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"What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." »Richard Harkness
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"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour." »Elbert Hubbard
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"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." »George Will
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"Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings." »George Will
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"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat" »Will Rogers
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"One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household." »George Frost Kennan
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"If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it." »Paul Fussell
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"Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm." »Pamela Ribon
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"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." »David Dean Rusk
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"Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it." »I Ching
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"committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done." »Fred Allen
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"The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives." »Calvin Trillin
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill
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"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." »Pope John Paul II
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"[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep." »Albert Einstein
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"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." »Mark Twain
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"A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member." »Johathan Edwards
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"... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe." »James Madison
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