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    1. It may be laid down as a maxim, that wherever a great deal can be made by the use of money, a great deal will commonly be given for the use of it; and that, wherever little can be made by it, less will commonly he given for it


    2. The living before the dead was the maxim, so he headed across his land towards the boys now obviously frightened out of their minds until another wind gust blew more embers behind the lads, now cutting off any chance of escape, the only sound was the deafening roar of grass and trees catching alight and two boys trapped in an ever degreasing circle of fire


    3. That the vineyard, when properly planted and brought to perfection, was the most valuable part of the farm, seems to have been an undoubted maxim in the ancient agriculture, as it is in the modern, through all the wine countries


    4. All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind


    5. The title of Mun's book, England's Treasure in Foreign Trade, became a fundamental maxim in the political economy, not of England only, but of all other commercial countries


    6. The province of Holland, accordingly, is said to follow this maxim at present


    7. The same maxim which would in this manner direct the common sense of one, or ten, or twenty individuals, should regulate the judgment of one, or ten, or twenty millions, and should make a whole nation regard the riches of its neighbours, as a probable cause and occasion for itself to acquire riches


    8. primary maxim and it was the cornerstone of all his


    9. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it


    10. We could now see that it was definitely not a child or even a body because in fact it was a German Maxim machine gun that the Sappers had snagged

    11. It may be laid down as a certain maxim, that all other things being supposed equal, the richer the church, the poorer must necessarily be, either the sovereign on the one hand, or the people on the other; and, in all cases, the less able must the state be to defend itself


    12. “Just remember the old maxim men ‘Ours not to reason why ours just to do or die’ we will be attacking tomorrow and because of the shortage of ammunition will take place in two parts


    13. In the obsevation or neglect of this maxim, consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation


    14. (Turner didn"t seem to understand this basic maxim of intelligence: that you must sometimes cavort with the bad in order to adequately deal with the worse


    15. It would not be his prerogative and he simply does not have that power unless this legal maxim is proven wrong after hundreds of years of accepted fact


    16. So many leaders base their role in an organisation on the maxim ‘follow me I’m right behind you’, which relates more to a military type relationship as of a general to a private than a leader /disciple relationship


    17. ” Reflecting on Pops’ meteoric rise in the broadcast industry, Broadcasting Magazine, in its issue of February 3, 1964, said: “If reverse logic can be applied to the maxim that idle hands are the Devil’s tools, then Roy H


    18. why Descartes is often considered the modern archetypal rationalist - his maxim "I think,


    19. In this process too, the maxim of satisficing


    20. There were instances in my other books where companies disregarded the maxim that the customer is always right

    21. It’s called a Max Alpha configuration—as slow as a plane can fly with maxim pitch-up attitude


    22. The maxim that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely was as true in those far off days as it is today


    23. But – Nidan searched his mind, and remembered the maxim of this


    24. In a sense, his experiments were the epitome of the maxim “try, try, again,” exemplified in this quote by Buckminster Fuller: “Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience


    25. Well, if his first maxim is true, then the second can’t be


    26. myself to your photo on the cover of Maxim? '


    27. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few was the maxim she learned from the gestalt of minds


    28. Learning from one’s own mistakes is surely one of those aspects of life that some clever arse with stupid ears has made up a ridiculous maxim for, making one wish he were still alive to facilitate the mashing off his face into something hard and unyielding


    29. The promotion and belief in the idea of ‘Truth, beauty and goodness’ is the maxim he and his late wife lived by


    30. This has been my favourite maxim of my life:

    31. You will recall the old maxim ‘treat others as you would have them


    32. Their maxim is to let everybody alone


    33. Of course, their upbringing enjoins on them to live and die for the supposedly holy causes of Islam, and attendant to this maxim is the righteousness of aggression against all those perceived as antagonistic to their dogma


    34. Graved a maxim true and wise,


    35. To treat others as you want to be treated is an egocentric maxim


    36. It is from this model, self-modeling, that one extrapolates the maxim of self-care to other-care


    37. ” she recited a maxim she had heard end many conversations


    38. When there is not only the absence of transparency, but also the punishment of whistleblowers, then horrescat emptor – buyer be scared – becomes the survival maxim of the incessantly suspect conned-sumer


    39. Then there is the ageold maxim of


    40. The maxim: ‘Do as you would be done by’ confirms the actions of our officer

    41. From those fear-triggered tribes arose an ancient religious ethical maxim, which survives unto today in both national and religious traditions, that none of its many divergent adherents, in its many forms of belief, follow: the military proscription on the limits of its retaliation, i


    42. 41 His overriding maxim was that mercy should


    43. The rotations of one wheel mirror the rotations of the other, so the wheels and axle embody the Hermetic maxim, "as above, so below; as below, so above


    44. maxim izing the potential


    45. Third Maxim: "Never allow an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life


    46. Apparently, he subscribed to a maxim of our less than gentlemanly, modern, smart-assed attitudes : show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser


    47. This maxim unequivocally reveals the Creator’s true nature and Her


    48. Soon a maxim came into vogue, ‘Don is for girls, what Cleo is for boys!’ No wonder, Don attracted many a girl with his calm and cool ambience


    49. “You would have been wise to heed the maxim of ‘never steal from a thief’


    50. twist to an old maxim, the spirit is willing but the flesh is strong








































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    Synonyms for "maxim"

    axiom maxim sir hiram stevens maxim precept foundation origin source ultimate cause law

    "maxim" definitions

    a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits


    English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)