Maya Angelou

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

American Poet

Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

American Architect

Antonio Damasio

Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.

Portuguese Scientist

Barbara Amiel

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.

British Journalist

Alexander Hamilton

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

American Politician

Ben Carson

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.

American Scientist

Joseph Conrad

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Polish Novelist

Katharine Butler Hathaway

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

American Author

Horace

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

Roman Poet

Henry Ward Beecher

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

American Clergyman

Refers to choosing the most practical way to achieve a goal, not necessarily the most ethical.

Practical Choice

It can have a slightly negative connotation suggesting a compromise on values or quality.

Negative Nuance

Often implies a quick solution for immediate benefit, not focusing on long-term impacts.

Immediate Benefit

Indicates choosing a method for gain, often disregarding ethical considerations.

Desire Over Morality

A tactic or action taken because it's convenient for achieving a particular aim.

Tactical Approach

Characterizes something chosen for practical rather than ethical reasons.

Utilitarian

 cheating well why were they cheating well because there's tremendous pressure on these teachers to produce high test scores so that their schools wouldn't get into trouble first of all it's it's very expedient to go to the end of the test good at the end of the test a lot of kids have left things blank so instead of having to raise something fill it back in you can

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 so if we're going to keep this kind of expedient mobile phone replacing, then we should be looking at closing the loop on these systems. The people who produce these phones, and some of which I'm sure are in the room right now, could potentially look at doing what we call closed-loop systems, or product system services, so identifying that there is a market demand

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 certainly a move expedient but his face does seem genuine as it comes through in those letters he wanted literacy and he sent young men to be educated in Portugal one of these was his son baptized Henrique who studied in Lisbon in Rome and in 1518 was consecrated by

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 Bovee leaves behind a more expedient cup of joe. Out west, folks are still buying their coffee beans green, roasting the beans at home, then grinding them with a hand crank, all before actually brewing them.

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Negative Nuance

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