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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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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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