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Briefs 6
The Universe is neither good nor bad-
Good is mere cultural consensus
And what is profitable for you to think or do
As a member of a group
With an assigned role therein.
Good is what your parents told you was good.
Good is what your peers told you was good.
Good is what the Press told you was good.
Good is what your payer tells you is good
Good is what you wouldn't know was good
Had you not been told, for good is expediency.
And whatever determines the best chance of getting paid.
And if you can clothe expediency with idealogy, oh my-
Then you've really got something!
Good unallied with expediency? Well,
'Do unto others' is still the best code
for the man who wants to do the right thing.
Using this code you cannot go wrong.
poem by Morgan Michaels
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Custom Machine
Check my custom machine
Well shes metal flake blue with a corvette grill
(check my custom machine)
And they say it looks better when shes standin still
(check my custom machine)
When I step on the gas she goes wa aa aa
Ill let you look but dont touch my custom machine
Well with naugahyde bucket seats in front and back
(check my custom machine)
Everything is chrome, man, even my jack
(check my custom machine)
When I step on the gas she goes wa aa aa
Ill let you look but dont touch my custom machine
With stereophonic speaker set with fibrosonic sound
(check my custom machine)
Magnesium spokes, it stands an inch off the ground
(check my custom machine)
When I step on the gas she goes wa aa aa
Ill let you look but dont touch my custom machine
Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
song performed by by Beach Boys
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More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
quote by Peter Singer
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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
quote by Roy Hattersley
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
quote by W. Somerset Maugham
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
quote by Theodore Roosevelt
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Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.
quote by James Webb
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A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
They Fall The Hardest
those that fly the highest
are those
that fall the hardest
unless one adapts to the wings
of angels
or those of the fallen ones.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
quote by Theodor Adorno
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
quote by Quentin Crisp
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But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
quote by Erwin Rommel
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If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
quote by Reed Hastings
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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
quote by Blaise Pascal
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Our civil laws will never be supple enough to fit the immense and changing variety of facts. Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.
quote by Marguerite Yourcenar
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Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
quote by Charles Adams
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
quote by Henry David Thoreau
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Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt
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The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
quote by Eric Cantor
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