1.
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
Cesare Beccaria
It is preferable to forestall offenses than to enforce retribution.
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The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
Charles Sanders Peirce
3.
...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.
Walter Isaacson
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Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
Richard M. Nixon
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Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.
Richard M. Nixon
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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
Tom Stoppard