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aphorism

noun as in saying expressing a belief, often true

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Many people attribute some cosmic significance to voting: “Tell me how you voted, and I will tell you who you are” seems to be the modern iteration of Carl Schmitt’s aphorism.

“You can’t hurry love,” Ross sang in the glorious Supremes song of that title — an aphorism everyone at Fool in Love kept rushing to reiterate.

But I’m not sure Trump and Vance can top Kennedy, the independent presidential candidate who is the very embodiment of Hunter S. Thompson’s famous aphorism, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

You may have heard the clever aphorism that “history never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”

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He sums up the differences between American and Taiwanese 7-Elevens with another aphorism:

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