expediences
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Peace_2_All @ --- Can't speak for all the atheists'... but I'm curious... "expediences" such as?
From Time ● Apr. 29, 2013
They went about balancing expediences, plausibilities; gathering votes, advices; they never were alone with the truth of a thing at all.—Cromwell’s prayers were likely to be ‘eloquent,’ and much more than that.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
Because, when love flames beyond duty and honour and all expediences, Lysbet, some one a little cold water ought to throw.
From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Alas, how, in thy soft-hung Longacre vehicle, of polished leather to the bodily eye, of redtape philosophy, of expediences, clubroom moralities, Parliamentary majorities to the mind's eye, thou beautifully rollest: but knowest thou whitherward?
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
Falsehood slopes into truth through cunning expediences and white lies.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
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