- Blind Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expedient Quotes
The easy option, and what it costs you.
Expedient gets used almost as a warning here — one quote claims there's no shortcut a person won't reach for rather than actually sit down and think something through, another admits that letting fear of consequence guide you leaves a life that's safe, expedient, and thin.
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- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army.
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under certain circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same way under circumstances essentially different would be folly and obstinacy, and not consistency.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.'s disposal for some very risky missions. But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020