dictum
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Rather than share my opinion on that pairing, I’ll follow the Latin dictum de gustibus non est disputandum: “There can be no disputes in matters of taste.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 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
Since then, Huxley’s dictum of “man remaining man” has become stretched.
From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025
“Personally,” he said, “my great ambition is to count all this”—he waved vaguely at the treasure around him—“and possibly sort it into piles. ‘Know thyself,’ that’s my dictum.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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