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“Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.”

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Author:Eliot Spitzer

“Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation is suited to the emergencies of his policy or passion; and all contradiction is removed by the saving maxim that any text of Scripture is abrogated or modified by any subsequent passage.”

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Book:The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq. Printed From The Edition In Twelve Volumes. With An Introductory Memoir Of The Author, By William Youngman

Source: The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq. Printed From The Edition In Twelve Volumes. With An Introductory Memoir Of The Author, By William Youngman

“With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.”

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Book:The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

Source: The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

“In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.”

Faces Law Christ Sin Perfect Poor Grace Shining Sinner Righteousness Maxims Gentleness Unworthy Avengers

Author:John Calvin

“We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the heart of a beloved pulpiteer or spiritual life coach have no real power against such darkness. We need preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ who know the Scriptures, and by God's grace face any culture with the cry, 'Thus saith the Lord!'”

“There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'”

Way Use Black Simple Situation Streets Suicide Tolerance One Way Maxims

Author:Allen West

“F8 And Be There! For years, this was the cry of the photojournalist. It meant that 90% of a great photo was being in the right place at the right time. True, it was simplistic, but in the Age of Photoshop, this maxim is too often forgotten. No matter how much you play with the bits and bytes, the best images always start out with a great vision, clearly and cleanly seen.”

Years Matter Play Age Bits Vision Cry Photography Forgotten Right Time Maxims Right Place Great Vision Photoshop Photojournalists

Author:Dewitt Jones

“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 theory.”

Men Ends Feelings Political Moral Theory One Man Maxims Flattering Political Theory

Author:James F. Cooper

“Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.”

Art Can Do Brain Weak Cures Wounded Maxims

Book:A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

“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.”

Ifs Trying Simple Style Concerned Maxims

Author:John Searle

“There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.”

Universe Students Forbidden Maxims

Book:The Physics of Star Trek

Source: The Physics of Star Trek

“Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.”

“Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.”

Men Littles Natural Perfect Deals Inspire Goodness Prejudice Maxims

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.”

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Author:H. G. Wells

“Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do right. Do right though the heavens fall. There is a world of difference between You had better and You are bound to.”

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Author:Francis Landey Patton

“Do more than believe: practice.”

Believe Motivational Practice Activity Maxims Practice Makes Perfect

Author:William Arthur Ward

“This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.”

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Book:The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

Source: The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

“Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.”

Mind Wells Mean Humility Sight Saint Acquire Maxims

Author:Francis of Assisi

“CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse."”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes?”

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Book:Speech of John Stuart Mill, M.P., on the Admission of Women to the Electoral Franchise: Spoken in the House of Commons, May 20th, 1867

Source: Speech of John Stuart Mill, M.P., on the Admission of Women to the Electoral Franchise: Spoken in the House of Commons, May 20th, 1867

“'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.”

Men School Bits Fool Cooking Wit Now And Then Flattery Maxims

Book:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin

“Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God.”

“Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."”

Way Business One Thing Extraordinary Maxims

Author:Samuel Smiles

“A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.”

Way Body Lying Cases Moved Dancing Dance Patient Treated Physicians Maxims Diagnosis Never Lie

Author:Gerald Jonas

“Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.”

Source: World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and Poetry

“Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.”

Ifs Wells Might Credit Maxims Timidity Wholeheartedly

Book:Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Source: Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome

“To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim”

Ifs May Political Moral Enemy Maxims

Author:Thomas Paine

“We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives”

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Book:The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

“Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed to entertain the most favourable sentiments of our new ally and to cherish them in others to a reasonable degree; but it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: From the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799

“These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kim-berly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation.”

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Author:Frederic C. Howe

“The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.”

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Book:The Day of the Triffids

Source: The Day of the Triffids

“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

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Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. This axiom, supposed to be the basis of the syllogistic theory, is termed by logicians the dictum de omni et nullo.”

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Book:A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

Source: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”

Honesty Policy Constitution Affair Maxims Farewell Address Honesty Is The Best Policy

Book:Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States

Source: Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States

“To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims that uphold public credit, and justify the solicitude manifested by the House on this point, would be an improper intrusion on their time and patience.”

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Book:Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States

Source: Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States

“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

People Way Life Teach Treats Karma Treated Live Life Maxims Define Yourself Living Life Well I Believe In Karma

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.”

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Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“The maxims of men reveal their characters.”

Men Character Maxims

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.”