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Sir Humphrey Appleby: Minister, if you block honours pending economies, you might create a dangerous precedent.James Hacker: You mean that if we do the right thing this time, we might have to do the right thing again next time. It seems on that philosophy, nothing would ever get done at all.Sir Humphrey Appleby: On the contrary, many, many things must be done...Sir Humphrey Appleby, James Hacker: [together] but nothing must be done for the first time.Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, no, Minister. What I mean is that I am fully seized of your aims and of course I will do my utmost to see that they are put into practice.James Hacker: If you would.Sir Humphrey Appleby: And to that end, I recommend that we set up an interdepartmental committee with fairly broad terms of reference so that at the end of the day we'll be in the position to think through the various implications and arrive at a decision based on long-term considerations rather than rush prematurely into precipitate and possibly ill-conceived action which might well have unforeseen repercussions.James Hacker: You mean no.

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