maxim
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To paraphrase the maxim falsely attributed to Lincoln, you can fool a whole bunch of the people for a hell of a long time, but you can’t fool all of them forever.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
“Know your audience,” goes the old line, a maxim to maximize a speaker’s effectiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Her signature maxim — “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” — drew laughs for decades even as it illuminated the unflinching honesty of her creative approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Billionaire Warren Buffett had a simple maxim for navigating Berkshire Hathaway through the financial crisis of 2007-09.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
I had always believed in the maxim that the best way to predict the future was to create it.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
The saying is one of his favorite maxims, but it hasn’t been uttered by any other world leader for centuries.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
Central bankers have been known to quote External link one of economist John Maynard Keynes’s most famous maxims: “When the facts change, I change my mind.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
How many of these business maxims from his “Poor Richard’s Almanack” can you remember?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
He hears him, Bridge: the maxims, the strategies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
My CIA training overrode my wishful thinking," Howard said, "and I also recalled one of James Bond's maxims: 'Once is coincidence.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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