The Tao of Spartacus Jones

When there is a discrepancy between your actions and your beliefs, you can do one of three things:
Change your actions to be consistent with your beliefs,
Change your beliefs to be consistent with your actions,
or deny that there's a discrepancy.

If you do the first, you're an idealist.
If you do the second, you're a pragmatist.
If you do the third, you're a politician.

sj