Maxim Quotes
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant
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When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted
Charles Caleb Colton
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I don`t accept the maxim `there`s no gain without pain`, physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop and grow with joy rather than grief. However, when the pain comes my way, I try to get the most growth out of it.
Alexa McLaughlin
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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right
Mark Twain
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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate
Bertrand Russell
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had le...
Adrien Wing
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I don`t eat at Sizzler, but I ask to use the bathroom and always leave with 700 toothpicks. (Maxim)
Enrique Murciano
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There`s a lot more to being a woman than being 18-years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.
Beth Broderick
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Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can`t say it clearly you don`t understand it yourself.
John Searle
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We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
Albert Lin
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
Andrew Reiss
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that `one man is as good as another;` a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theo...
Alfred Kugal
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There`s an old maxim that says, `Things that work persist,` which is why there`s still Cobol floating around.
Andrew J. Spano
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There`s an old maxim that says, `Things that work persist,` which is why there`s still Cobol floating around.
Vint Cerf
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of...
Andrew Bosomworth
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Alexander Nikonov
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
Amanda Parks
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In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
Alex Maskey
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Ana Navarro
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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
Andrea Yerger
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that `a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.` So with men. If you would win a man to your ...
Abraham Lincoln
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
