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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 05, 2008
Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)  
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
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National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"  
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895  
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)  
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