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Lee Siegel has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
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Every man is a hero to his alias.
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Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.
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Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere…
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I am too childlike to be immature.
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I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book…
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The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.
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Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism…
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A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with…
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Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own…
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The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it…
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
— Edmund Burke
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Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight…
— John Peter Altgeld
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is…
— Laozi
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If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be…
— Stewart Udall
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
— Abbie Hoffman
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is…
— Vladimir Lenin
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic?…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin…
— Lionel Shriver
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Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.
— Lee Siegel
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