#expedient

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. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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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. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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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. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. ↗

— Horace

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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. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. ↗

— Alan Paton

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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. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

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I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

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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. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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