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Druckenmiller’s opposition to Treasury policy in essence boils down to Margaret Thatcher’s famous dictum: “You cannot buck the market.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

In his own Senate hearing last month, Warsh mocked policymakers and economists for ignoring Friedman’s dictum.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Putting the experience of making “Faces of Death” in perspective, Goldhaber references Jean-Luc Godard’s famous dictum that every film is a documentary of its own making.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026

It is time to update Willie Sutton’s famous dictum on bank robbery: People rob the government because that’s where the money is.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

It became a rather serious game of can-you-top-this, and finally a dictum was handed down that all the signs must be made the same way, without any neon.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Bend menswear’s dicta to your will like Thelonious Monk stretching time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

In these talks, Milch mixes jokes, anecdotes from his own life, lessons he learned from his teacher Robert Penn Warren, and dicta such as "Don't think about writing when you're not writing."

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2022

Alito is hardly the first justice to mislead through obiter dicta.

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022

But in deciding that the board lacked the requisite authority, the court also included expansive dicta about deference to the executive on matters of national security.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2018

The Pythagoreans lived according to the dicta of their leader.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

She followed her father’s dictums on health: Modern medicine was nearly useless, and the “good body” would heal itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

A new school system will be developed from a “bottom-up” movement, not “top-down” dictums.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

The Wing, a women-only social club and workspace in New York City, got flak for its line of Handmaid’s swag, too, which included notebooks and pens embossed with peppy dictums of female empowerment.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2018

Much of it is put in place through "dictums from on high" and doesn't add much to increasing the quality of care but is for CYA purposes especially for the higher ups.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2017

Without accepting any of the Carr dictums upon theology and theological activities, he was fast growing doubtful of his fitness for the job of herding other people into the fold.

From Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair