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“In this state, the club was The Wizard of Oz made obvious: All the magic that went on here night after night, all the buzz and excitement, was really just a combination of electronics, booze, and c...”
“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest pe...”
“The ideal committee is one with me as chairman and two other members in bed with flu.”
“If Moses had been a committee the Israelites would still be in Egypt.”
“A committee of one gets things done.”
“A camel is a horse designed by a committee.”
“If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.”
“An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.”
“I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”
“Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.”
“What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.”
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
