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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
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Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
On Import Duties (25-04-1843) -
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
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I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.
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Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
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The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
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You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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