dictum

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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

The government held, and Hamilton got the economy running again using Bagehot’s dictum External link: “Lend freely, at a penalty rate, against good collateral.”

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

Since then, Huxley’s dictum of “man remaining man” has become stretched.

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

Women at home, nevertheless, would repeat the old Mexican dictum that a man should be feo,fuerte, y formal.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez