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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 28, 2021
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
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Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)  
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
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Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)  
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)  
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Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993  
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