You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
quote by Publilius Syrus
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
quote by Thomas Edison
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
quote by Aldo Leopold
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Trust
To appreciate a lie
Requires expedient endowment
Ubiquitous to psychopaths
So be careful of all acquaintances
Trust is virally benevolent
poem by Kevin Patrick
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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
quote by Joseph Conrad
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
quote by Katharine Butler Hathaway
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As for me, I cease not to advocate peace. It may be on unjust terms, but even so it is more expedient than the justest of civil wars.
Cicero in Letters to Atticus, VII, 14, translated by E.O. Winstedt
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
quote by Richard Dawkins
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How long will men dare to call anything expedient that is not right? Can odium and infamy be of service to any empire, which ought to be supported by glory and by the good-will of its allies?
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
quote by James Russell Lowell
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
quote by Barry Commoner
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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
quote by Aldo Leopold
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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
quote by Barbara Amiel
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It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
quote by Sandra Day O'Connor
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It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
quote by Jonathan Mayhew
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My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right'
quote by Dexter Scott King
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Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.
Carl Sagan in Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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