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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 12, 2026
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
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Robert Copeland  
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )  
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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973)  
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)  
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