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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

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Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

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Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. ↗

— Kathy Acker

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I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

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Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

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The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. ↗

— David Suzuki

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Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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