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Definition of Committee
Committee

One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.

One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.

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Committee Quotations

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Fred Allen

The optimum committee has no members.
Norman Ralph Augustine

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
William Graham Sumner

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

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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