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Pragmatism Quotes

"The cynics are right nine times out of ten"

"Truth is what works."

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"

"Embrace reality and deal with it"

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared"

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."

"Those are my principles and if you don't like them well I have others"

"There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs"

"What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology"

"Plans are just guesses. Long-term plans, made in detail, are just shy of impossible."

"Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical."

"There is no reality except in action"

"Pragmatism is the attitude of looking away from first things, principles, 'categories', supposed necessities; and of looking towards last things, fruits, consequences, facts."

"Politics have no relation to morals"

"The maxim of the British people is ‘Business as usual.'"

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