Services Select Committee

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    “Cry cry what shall I cry?
    The first thing to do is to form the committees:
    The consultative councils, the standing committees, select committees and sub-committees.
    One secretary will do for several committees.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1984)

    “A committee is an animal with four back legs.”
    —John le Carré (b. 1931)